KPFA: Dr. Helen Caldicott threatened with death while in Japan for speaking about nuclear power
Students being charged with disturbing the peace for handing out flyers
20
March, 2014
KPFA
Flashpoints,
Mar. 10, 2014 (at 3:00
in):
Steve
Zeltzer, reporting from Japan:
We went to Osaka […] we were told there’s continuing repression.
Activists here are being threatened, including Professor
Shimoji who
was arrested for handing out leaflets. The government is trying to
suppress opposition to nuclear power by passing the secrecy law which
just passed the parliament and also by intimidating antinuclear
activists and saying they have to keep quiet. [...] We also learned
from Dr. Helen Caldicott that she was threatened. She spoke at a
meeting in Kyoto on the 8th and
it was reported at the meeting that she had been threatened by
right-wingers with death for speaking out about the dangers of
nuclear power.
Zeltzer:
There were also students there from different universities that are
reporting that they’re being repressed. They’re being charged
with disturbing the peace for handing out flyers against the burning
nuclear rubble and against nuclear power plants.
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