US Government wanted two non-violent priests protesting US torture jailed before trial ...
Here's the priests web page: U.S. District Court Magistrate Hector Estrada Tuesday refused to grant a military prosecutor's repeated plea to jail two Roman Catholic priests, each with a long record of nonviolent protest and subsequent imprisonment, pending their trial for trespass last fall at Fort Huachuca, in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Estrada set trials to begin in Tucson on June 4 for Jesuit Fr. Steve Kelly and June 6 for Franciscan Fr. Louis Vitale. It is expected that the cases will be consolidated, and the men will be tried together that week.
Here's a Sierra Vista Herald article that counterpoints the diverging stories: Priests claim torture; fort says no by Bill Hess.
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