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Octogenarian nun awaits sentence for protest break-in at US nuclear plant
Source: The Guardian
Octogenarian nun awaits sentence for protest break-in at US nuclear plant
Karen McVeigh in Knoxville
theguardian.com, Monday 27 January 2014 19.32 GMT
On Monday morning, three days short of her 84th birthday, Sister Megan Rice ate a hearty breakfast of pancakes and oatmeal at the ungodly hour of 4.30am in Knox county jail, Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Rice was charged with federal sabotage, along with co-defendants Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, a carpenter, and Michael Walli, 64, a Vietnam veteran, for breaking into the Y-12 nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, and they will learn their fate on Tuesday when they appear before Judge Amul Thapar in a federal court in Knoxville, to be sentenced.
The charge of sabotage, under a statute of the US criminal code used against international and domestic terrorism, carries a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
In May, Judge Thapar suggested that their sentences will be more lenient than the maximum, saying that their non-violence would be relevant. But in the last month, the US government have turned up the heat on three.
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Karen McVeigh in Knoxville
theguardian.com, Monday 27 January 2014 19.32 GMT
On Monday morning, three days short of her 84th birthday, Sister Megan Rice ate a hearty breakfast of pancakes and oatmeal at the ungodly hour of 4.30am in Knox county jail, Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Rice was charged with federal sabotage, along with co-defendants Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, a carpenter, and Michael Walli, 64, a Vietnam veteran, for breaking into the Y-12 nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, and they will learn their fate on Tuesday when they appear before Judge Amul Thapar in a federal court in Knoxville, to be sentenced.
The charge of sabotage, under a statute of the US criminal code used against international and domestic terrorism, carries a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
In May, Judge Thapar suggested that their sentences will be more lenient than the maximum, saying that their non-violence would be relevant. But in the last month, the US government have turned up the heat on three.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/octogenarian-nun-sentence-nuclear-protest