US Peace Activist, Retired Col. Ann Wright, Detained at Ottawa Airport
OTTAWA - An American peace activist denied entry into Canada earlier this month is being detained at Ottawa airport.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ann Wright was to speak at an antiwar news conference with New Democrat MPs on Parliament Hill today.
But while other passengers passed through Customs, Wright was held back.
She was to have been accompanied on the trip by fellow activist Medea Benjamin, but Benjamin was arrested and jailed Wednesday during a protest in Washington.
Wright and Benjamin were refused entry at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, Ont., earlier this month because their names are on an FBI crime database.
The women say they shouldn’t be on the database - which is supposed to inform border officials about serious crimes - and that the FBI hasn’t explained why they’re on it.
The pair suspect it’s because they have been arrested at peaceful protests against the war in Iraq.
© 2007 The Canadian Press
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