Posts Tagged ‘Elijah Smith’
Elijah Smith : 10 Months without trial (UK)
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
10 months ago, on 18 January 2009, Elijah Smith, a former British Soldier was arrested in Brighton. He had spent the previous night decommissioning the EDO/MBM/ITT factory in Brighton, in an attempt to stop it providing parts for weapons being used by the Israeli army to bomb civilians in Gaza. Nobody was injured or harassed during their action, which was one of property damage. He and his co-defendants did not resist arrest.
Exactly 10 months on and Elijah Smith is still on remand. Yes that’s right – 10 months in prison without trial. And it looks as if he is likely to remain in prison until the trial actually starts, probably on 17 May 2010, by which time he’ll have spent 16 months on remand.
Elijah is currently at Bristol prison, please write to him in solidarity:
Elijah Smith VP7551,
HMP Bristol,
19 Cambridge Rd,
Horfield, Bristol,
BS7 8PS
UK
He will be there until late November. On 30 November/1 December he and the other Decommissioners will be at Brighton courts for a ‘case management’ session relating to their trial next May. At the same time, Elijah and another decommissioner, also known as the Raytheon 2 (previously the Raytheon 3, but 3rd defendant’s charges dropped), will have that case discussed at the same court – the prosecution are trying to have the Raytheon and EDO cases linked, and a decision is due on that then. Elijah faces a third court case, currently set for 2 August 2010, which relates to alleged threatening comments he made to the EDO/MBM CEO during a previous court hearing.
Homepage: http://www.decommissioners.co.uk
Tags: Anti-Militarism, Decommissioners, EDO, Elijah Smith, Raytheon 2
Posted in Prison Struggle
Shouting and fireworks at Lewes Prison, Sussex (UK)
Friday, November 6th, 2009
1st November 2009 : Disturbance at the Lewes Prison by anarchists. Here is the claim: “In the early evening of the 1st November a rabble of anarchists were up at the dirty old prison of Lewes, with some fireworks for the inmates and rage against the prison society.
Waving a skull and crossbones banner, the anarchists made a loud presence outside the main gate.
Shouting slogans like:
“The Passion for Freedom is Stronger than the Prison”
“No Prison, No Border – Fuck Law & Order”
The prisoners heard and saw us, and called back, waving, holding up lighters and shouting into the night sky between us which was broken by the boom-crack of our rockets, which illuminated the darkness. Then a second box blossomed towards the stars and another stray rocket found its way under a car before we dispersed.
This was for all prisoners in struggle, like Elijah Smith, anarchist comrade imprisoned in Lewes right now for anti-militarist sabotage against Israeli war crimes.”
Tags: Elijah Smith, Lewes Prison, Prison Society
Posted in Direct Action, Prison Struggle