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Court ruling in facour of anti uranium protestors

Anti-uranium protesters win legal costs from SA Government , ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 30 June 2010, A court has ordered the South Australian Government to pay the legal bills of nine people who were assaulted and unlawfully detained during an anti-uranium protest.The Supreme Court had already awarded more than $700,000 in damages.

Back in April, it found eight protesters, a news cameraman and a girl were unlawfully detained and assaulted during a protest at the Beverley mine in South Australia’s far north-east, a decade ago.

Police locked some of the group in a shipping container and the girl, who was 11, had capsicum spray used on her.

The judge awarded extra damages over comments by the South Australian treasurer and police minister that they would not negotiate.

Anti-uranium protesters win legal costs from SA Government – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

June 30, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA, Legal | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear costs, uranium