American Soldier Who Didn’t Obey Is Jailed

By sudhan

By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr., New York Times, Aug 5, 2009

HOUSTON — A soldier at Fort Hood who fought his deployment to Afghanistan and stopped obeying orders was sentenced to a month in jail and demoted to private in a military court on Wednesday morning.

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Victor Agosto was demoted to private and sentenced to 30 days in jail for disobeying orders.

Victor Agosto, a 24-year-old signalman with the III Corps, ripped a patch showing his specialist rank off his uniform after an emotional hearing in front of an Army captain in which he had told the court he believed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan violated international law, his lawyer, James M. Branum, said. Later, about 20 antiwar protesters cheered Private Agosto as he was taken to jail, the lawyer said.

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