COLUMBUS - A federal magistrate has sentenced six nuns and four other people Tuesday for trespassing during a demonstration against Fort Benning's training school Latin American soldiers. <br>
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The sentences for the nuns range from home confinement to probation to three months in prison. Three others were sentenced to six months in prison; one was sentenced to three months. <br>
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They're among a group of 43 protesters who're on trial starting Monday before U.S. Magistrate G. Mallon Faircloth. Sentences for the 23 who appeared before him yesterday ranged a year's probation to six months in prison. <br>
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Another 35 protesters will go on trial February 10. <br>
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In all, 85 protesters were arrested during the November 17 demonstration at the Army post. <br>
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A group known as SOA Watch holds annual demonstrations outside Fort Benning to commemorate the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador. Some graduates of the Army's former School of the Americas were linked to that killing.
