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Article: 34 Convicted in Display At U.S. Supreme Court; Protesters Had Decried Guantanamo
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- The Washington Post
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- May 30, 2008
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Thirty-four people were convicted yesterday of misdemeanor
charges stemming from a demonstration at the Supreme Court in
January in which they decried conditions at the U.S. military prison
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Wendell P. Gardner Jr. said the
demonstrators violated the law by protesting at the plaza of the
Supreme Court, where such activities are banned. He rejected
arguments that they were practicing free speech when they marched to
the plaza, despite warnings from police, carrying banners and
wearing T-shirts saying "Shut down Guantanamo."
The demonstration occurred Jan. 11, the sixth anniversary of the
opening of the detention facility, which was set up to ...