Hi Sisters and Brothers... excuse the tread creep, but it is kinda close, as this thread is attracting the Pasifist community. New Jersey Quaker (and almost neighbor of Rick Feilding but for a historical glitch) Sue Thomas is to attend a hearing in Italy with other members of the theater group of which she is a member - here is a quote from her letter, tommorow I will post the whole thing in a separate post... Larry "On Tuesday, April 9th, the Publix Theatre will have a hearing in the Genoa Courts. It will be a closed hearing, no defendants, press or public will be present; just lawyers. This is how Italian trials usually are. The Italian Supreme Court has reviewed the original decision of the Genoa Tribunal from August 14th that set us all free, and rejected it. The Supreme Court has decided that there needs to be some stronger motivation for our release than just the lack of clear evidence against the Publix Theatre. On Tuesday, the Genoa courts will review the evidence again, and decide whether to issue another order for pre-trial incarceration.

This decision only directly affects the 19 who were freed in the main tribunal. The Publix Theatre was freed in three groups: a group of 19 (who are having their release reviewed on Tuesday), me (because I had a separate lawyer), and the five men who were released the day after the women were (because they, too, had a separate lawyer.) The prosecutor appealed the release order for all of the Publixtheatre defendants, but for technical reasons only the main group of 19 is under review for the moment.

This is a dangerous sign for all of us, because the PublixTheatre case is the only one that has made it this far in the courts, suggesting that they wish to bring us to trial, and that, as the sole object of the prosecutor's energies, PublixTheatre may find itself the "fall guy," taking the blame for all of the tragedies of Genoa. This is especially hard to deal with as some of the police who were giving the orders during the terrible police violence of Genoa have actually been promoted.

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