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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.17.2007
Two San Francisco Bay Area Catholic priests facing prison time for trespassing at Fort Huachuca will give a public talk tonight at Tucson's Southside Presbyterian Church.
The talk will begin at 7:30. The church is at 317 W. 23rd St.
The priests, the Rev. Louis J. Vitale and the Rev. Steve Kelly, are scheduled to go to trial on June 6. The pair are accused of trespassing at Fort Huachuca — at Sierra Vista, about 75 miles southeast of Tucson — on Nov. 19 while protesting military intelligence training.
They planned to deliver a letter to the post's top commander, Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, stating that the facility trains personnel in torture methods, a claim the Army denies.
Vitale, a 74-year-old Franciscan priest, and Kelly, a Jesuit who is 58, both have been locked up previously for acts of civil disobedience. If they're convicted in the Fort Huachuca case, each faces 10 months in prison.
The title of their talk tonight is "Torture on Trial." They plan to speak about Fort Huachuca and U.S. interrogation tactics, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the School of the Americas and their upcoming trial.
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