[Ppnews] James Kilgore update and birthday

[Political Prisoner News]

James Kilgore is in custody of the state of California since last
year after serving 2 years in federal prison. He's incarcerated at
Susanville, is in good health, reading, writing, teaching English and
yoga.  His release date is June 2009.

He will be 60 YEARS OLD on July 30 and would love to receive cards
and letters.

His address is:

James Kilgore
V-15088
CSP High Desert
A-1-121
P.O. Box 3030
Susanville, CA 96127-3030
USA

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Kilgore vows: I will be back
06/12/2002 12:08  - (SA)

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1294619,00.html

Cape Town - Former Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) member James 
Kilgore on Friday formally consented to his extradition to face 
criminal charges in the United States.

However, he also said through his lawyer that he intended to return 
to South Africa to continue "building a democratic society" when he 
has served his sentence.

Wynberg magistrate Maria van Eeden issued an order under the 
Extradition Act that he be held in custody pending a decision by 
Justice Minister Penuell Maduna on his surrender to United States authorities.

Kilgore waived his right to appeal against the committal order.

At the same time, the State announced it was dropping South African 
immigration charges against him - charges which Kilgore's advocate, 
Anton Katz, said had been "merely a ruse to keep my client in custody".

Katz asked Van Eeden to include in the report she must now make to 
Maduna that there were no charges against Kilgore in South Africa.

He has an empty diary now

He also handed in a draft of a surrender order that he said Maduna 
"may appropriately make".

Katz said Kilgore wanted this order made as soon as possible "early 
next week if possible, but, if not, as soon as possible thereafter".

Given an opportunity after the hearing to speak to the score or so of 
supporters who had filled the public benches, a relaxed-looking 
Kilgore thanked them for coming.

"I'll be in touch," he joked. "I'm easy to contact. My diary is empty."

Kilgore's attorney, Michael Evans, said the extradition now all 
hinged on Maduna.

Kilgore was arrested on November 8 at his home in Cape Town, where he 
worked as an academic under the alias Charles Pape.

He is wanted on three matters in the United States. These include a 
federal passport-related charge, a federal charge of possession of an 
unlawful explosive device, and California state charges of murder and 
use of an unlicensed weapon in the commission of that murder.

Kilgore has a wife and children in Cape Town, and was a respected 
researcher at the University of Cape Town's International Labour 
Resource and Information Group.

About 27 years ago, he was a member of the radical SLA, an 
organisation best remembered for its kidnapping of newspaper heiress 
Patty Hearst.

Four other SLA members recently pleaded guilty in a California court, 
and are to be sentenced in February.

They were charged with the shotgun killing of Myrna Opsahl, a 
42-year-old woman gunned down in the hold-up of a Crocker National 
Bank branch in Carmichael, just north of Sacramento, in 1975.

Kilgore is being held in Goodwood Prison.




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