80 Arrested Protesting Guantanamo

Protesters Demand Guantanamo Close: 80 Arrested
Friday 11 January 2008

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011108R.shtml

The Associated Press, Washington - Eighty people were arrested at
the Supreme Court Friday in a protest calling for the shutdown of the
U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Demonstrators wearing orange jump suits intended to simulate
prison garb were arrested inside and outside the building in the early
afternoon. "Shut it down," protesters chanted as others kneeled on the
plaza in front of the court.

They were charged with violating an ordinance that prohibits
demonstrations of any kind on court grounds. Those arrested inside the
building also were charged under a provision that makes it a crime to
give "a harangue or oration" in the Supreme Court building.

The maximum penalty is 60 days in jail, a fine or both.

The court is considering whether prisoners still detained at
Guantanamo Bay have a right to challenge their confinement in U.S.
courts.

Officials briefly closed the court building during the protest. It
reopened around 2 p.m. EST.

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