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Eve Tetaz

Released
Date of birth:06. 09. 1931
Date of death:07. 06. 2023
Age:91† Deceased
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:2000s
State:District of Columbia
Time Imprisoned:
25 Days
Support
Anti-War
Eve Tetaz

Biography

Eve Tetaz was a retired Washington, D.C. public school teacher who became a prominent peace-and-justice activist, repeatedly committing nonviolent civil resistance against the Iraq War, torture, and the Guantanamo detentions. Arrested some eleven times in 2007 alone and roughly a dozen more times in 2008-2010, she refused to pay fines and served a series of jail sentences — including 7 days (2007), 5 days (2008), 25 days (2010), and 60 days in the D.C. Jail after a 2012 banner protest at the U.S. Supreme Court. She was active with Code Pink, the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, and Witness Against Torture.

2010s audit verified October 12, 2026: The January 25, 2010 Baltimore Nonviolence Center original report, retained and read locally, confirms sentencing and jail commencement that day. The existing exact January 25 endpoints are corroborated; the conflicting sentence note describing only an advance schedule was corrected. The 2012 Supreme Court episode remains distinct, and no release day is calculated from the 25-day sentence.

The contemporary report documents a separate custody episode: Overnight detention; released after arraignment.

Source report, PDF 1569.

Cases

Charges: Nonviolent civil resistance — anti-war, anti-torture, and Guantanamo protests (unlawful assembly / disorderly conduct / failure to obey)
Released: Jul 26, 2012
Sentence: Repeated terms of 7, 5, 25 and 60 days
Convicted: Yes
Charges: Disruption of Congress / disorderly conduct — May 21, 2009 Senate hearing protest
Arrested: May 21, 2009
Sentenced: Jan 25, 2010
Incarcerated: Jan 25, 2010
Sentence: Convicted with Barfield and Perry in October 2009. On January 25, 2010 Judge Lynn Liebovitz imposed 25 days in D.C. Jail beginning that day, another 50 days suspended, and one year of probation with a Capitol Hill stay-away order. The contemporary Baltimore Nonviolence Center report confirms actual commencement, not merely an advance schedule. The individual release day is not established. Source: https://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/2010/01/eve-tetaz-is-in-dc-jail.html
Judge: Lynn Liebovitz
Convicted: Yes
Charges: Disruptive conduct during Senate-gallery antiwar protest
Arrested: Mar 12, 2008
Incarcerated: Mar 12, 2008
Released: Mar 13, 2008
Sentence: Overnight detention; released after arraignment.