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http://ameblo.jp/warm-heart/entry-10130171942.html から転載。 2008-08-22 09:11:31 反戦行動は当日、ニューヨークの中心部で行われ、市警は通行妨害のかどで活動家らを逮捕したが、その後のビデオ検証によって、コーヒーを手に仕事場に入る人が映っているなど、通行妨害の事実がないことが判明した。 一方、市側の弁護士は「この和解は市側や被告人個々の法的責任を認めたものではない」とコメントしている。 （＊まったくもって怪しからんコメントだが、誰が見ても実質勝訴だから仕方がないか） ------------------------------ ニューヨーク・タイムズ紙の英文記事はこちら http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/nyregion/20about.html?ref=nyregion One Protest, 52 Arrests and a $2 Million Payout They were charged with blocking pedestrians, but videotapes show that at their most annoying, they might have slowed a few people carrying coffee into work. Public order did not seem to be in unusual danger that morning — certainly nothing that called for rounding up 52 people, or spending millions of dollars. Only two people were tried; they were acquitted, and charges against the other 50 were dismissed. The arrests were made on April 7, 2003, during the opening days of the invasion of Iraq and right after the city persuaded the Republican Party to hold its 2004 convention in New York. The people arrested said their rights to free speech had been abused, and sued the city and the police. （中略） That morning, two groups gathered on West 56th Street, outside the offices of an affiliate of the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm that has holdings in defense industries and employs many world figures, including the first President Bush. One group of about 10 people planned to commit civil disobedience by sitting in front of the building, on the south side of 56th Street. The other group, of about 100 people, stood on the north side of the street, chanting. Sarah Kunstler, 31, a lawyer, a filmmaker and the daughter of the renowned lawyer, said she had gone to see if there were possibilities of making a film about war protests. “I found out I could get arrested for absolutely no reason,” Ms. Kunstler said. A film editor, Ahmad Shirazi, 70, said he was in the group on the north side of the street and had just finished speaking with reporters for the BBC when he saw officers beginning to mass. “All of a sudden, from the Fifth Avenue side, a huge number of police officers entered 56th Street,” Mr. Shirazi said. “The protest was on the south side of the street. We were standing on the north side of the street. They came directly to us, they were in riot gear, and they surrounded us. They made a semicircle around us, shoulder to shoulder, with their batons.” “Then they started arresting us, one by one. At that point, I got emotional — I could not believe in my country, in my city, I could get arrested for doing absolutely nothing and standing on the sidewalk,” Mr. Shirazi added. Are there any lessons from the day? The Law Department said the $2 million payout did not mean the police had done anything wrong. “This settlement was reached without any admission of liability on behalf of the city and the individual defendants,” said Ms. Halatyn, the city lawyer. （後略）
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2003年4月反戦行動で52人が不当逮捕／NY市 和解金200万ドル支払い【NYTimes】
テーマ：戦争と平和、靖国問題
ニューヨーク・タイムズ紙（8月20日付・電子版）が伝えるところによれば、2003年4月7日にニューヨークで行われたイラク反戦行動で活動家など52人が逮捕され、言論の自由が侵害されたとして逮捕者たちがニュヨーク市ならびに市警察を訴えていた裁判で、市が原告側に和解金200万7千ドル払うことで和解が成立した。
原告人の一人、Ahmad Shiraziさんは「国も市も信じられない。全く何もしないで歩道に立っていただけなのに逮捕された」と逮捕の不当性を非難している。
By JIM DWYER
Published: August 19, 2008
The city has agreed to pay $2,007,000 to end a lawsuit brought by 52 people who were swept up in a mass arrest along a Midtown sidewalk during a protest against the invasion of Iraq.
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