TAS:Ferry protestors charged with trespass

AAP General News (Australia)
12-15-2010
TAS:Ferry protestors charged with trespass

HOBART, Dec 15 AAP - Six anti-logging projectors who abseiled onto the Spirit of Tasmania
II ferry, under the cover of darkness on Tuesday night, have been charged with trespass.

The ferry was docked at Devonport when members of the `Still Wild Still Threatened'
group abseiled down the side of the ship.

They unfurled a banner that read `Still Woodchipping the', delaying the ferry's departure
from Devonport on Tuesday night.

Police arrested one man and five women, who were charged with trespass upon a vessel
and continuing a common nuisance on Wednesday.

They were all granted police bail to appear in Hobart Magistrates Court on January 31.

`Still Wild Still Threatened' spokeswoman Ula Majewski said the protest aimed to highlight
the need for a full moratorium on logging Tasmania's forests.

The Spirit of Tasmania operates two ships which sail between Melbourne and Devonport,
departing both locations most nights.

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