Judge sentences more Fort Benning protesters

COLUMBUS - A federal magistrate has sentenced six nuns and four other people Tuesday for trespassing during a demonstration against Fort Benning&#39;s training school Latin American soldiers. <br> <br> 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> <br> They&#39;re among a group of 43 protesters who&#39;re on trial starting Monday before U.S. Magistrate G. Mallon Faircloth. Sentences for the 23 who appeared before him yesterday ranged a year&#39;s probation to six months in prison. <br> <br> Another 35 protesters will go on trial February 10. <br> <br> In all, 85 protesters were arrested during the November 17 demonstration at the Army post. <br> <br> 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&#39;s former School of the Americas were linked to that killing.

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