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A Catholic friar and two other people were arrested at Fort Huachuca on Sunday during a day of protests against Fort Benning, Ga.'s, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and the Arizona post.

In a brown robe, friar Jerome Zawada, from Nevada, along with Mary Riseley of New Mexico and Frances Elizabeth Lamb of Oregon, were arrested for going onto the post, which is adjacent to Sierra Vista, without authorization, said Lt. Col. Matt Garner, a Fort Huachuca spokesman.

About 250 protesters demonstrated from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Sunday's protesters and other critics say the Western Hemisphere Institute — formerly the U.S. Army School of the Americas — trains Central and South American military personnel in how to torture captives and their own people.

The U.S. Army, the Western Hemisphere Institute and Fort Huachuca do no such thing, Garner said, explaining that the school teaches foreign leaders how to do staff work and run a military program.

"They wanted to get arrested," he said of the protesters. "They came onto the base, through barriers, with signs posted and verbal warnings that if they were on base they would be arrested, and they did it anyway."

Other then the three arrests the protest was peaceful, Garner said, adding that nearly 100 counterprotesters showed up, too. Both the protesters and counterprotesters stood across the street from the main entrance to the base.

Zawada, Riseley and Meredith Little of Tucson had been on base a few days earlier, he said.

"On Thursday we escorted them on base and they voiced their concerns to Army personnel," Garner said. "We had about a 90-minute conversation on the very topic of what we teach here at Fort Huachuca."

After being arrested by military police, Zawada, Riseley and Lamb were released, he said. They each face a court date in early December.