Nobel Peace Winners Arrested Outside White House
Date: Wednesday, March 26 @ 11:49:23 CST
Topic: Archive of stories pre April 2007
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police arrested two Nobel Peace Prize winners along with more than 30 other people protesting on Wednesday near the White House against the U.S.-led war against Iraq.
Police handcuffed Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won the prize in 1976 for peace activism in the Northern Ireland conflict, and Jody Williams, a 1997 winner for her work to ban land mines, after they refused to leave Lafayette Park opposite the home of the U.S. president.
The Nobel laureates were detained along with 35 religious leaders as they sat in a circle in the park and chanted "Peace, shalom." They held roses as well as gruesome posters showing civilian casualties from the war.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2453878
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