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Sonja Andreas

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:2000s
Inmate Number:#91328-020
State:Georgia
Time Imprisoned:
8 Months 15 Days
Support
Anti-War School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch)
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Biography

Sonja Andreas crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months.

Each year on the November anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador in 1989, peace activists gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, site of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), to commemorate the dead and to call for the school's closure. Hundreds have crossed the line onto the base over four decades of vigils; many have served federal sentences ranging from 30 days to a year for trespass.

Case

Charges: Trespass at U.S. Army School of the Americas, Fort Benning
Arrested: Nov 16, 2002
Incarcerated: Nov 16, 2002
Released: Jul 31, 2003
Sentence: 6 months