Peace and justice campaigner charged
Sylvia Boyes was imprisoned on 18 March
by Tara Craig
27th March 2015
Keighley Friend Sylvia Boyes was imprisoned on 18 March for refusing to pay fines.
The fines related to a protest against the DSEI (Defence and Security Equipment) arms fair in 2013 when Sylvia was charged with obstructing the highway. She will spend fourteen days in New Hall Prison in Wakefield.
Sylvia said: ‘William Gladstone said that which is morally wrong can never be politically right. The UK has apologised for a number of historical crimes, like the slave trade, and I honestly and sincerely believe that what I was protesting against was in the same moral vein. The slave trade was held in place by the law of the land and the political establishment, just as the arms trade is today’.
