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...bundled back into the cells. Interior Minister Kwaku Boateng cynically explained that their acquittal "was the sole responsibility of the judiciary, not of the government, which is therefore not bound to take any cognizance of it." They will remain in jail under a law that permits the government to detain any citizen for ten years without trial "in order to prevent him from acting in a manner prejudicial to Ghana's security...
Work or Else. In their zeal the soldiers were showing a pronounced impatience with due process of law. "We can arrest, detain and punish anyone," snapped Chang...
...public security" bill that will give him more drastic powers than any colonial governor has ever had in a British territory not in a state of war or emergency. The governor would be able to control the territory's press, prohibit meetings, conscript labor and supplies, and detain troublemakers without trial. "It is with no enthusiasm that we who have been nurtured in the tradition of English law are compelled to introduce such measures," said Sir Evelyn, but the British strongly fear that Northern Rhodesia may yet become another Kenya...
...democratic of all.'' The honorable members rapped their desks in well-bred applause, then began debating a drastic series of bills to slap down the blacks even harder. Among them: a "Preventive Detention Act" which for the next five years would give Rhodesian police the power to detain indefinitely suspected nationalists or anyone "likely to endanger the public safety." Under the act the police could issue detention orders without the approval of any court and the only appeal would be to a star chamber composed of five Rhodesian M.P.s...
...They can manage it in several ways," said Harry M. Hayward, Research Fellow at the Russian Research Center. "His expulsion from the Society of Russian Writers is sufficient excuse to deny him a passport to Stockholm and thus simply to detain him. Or they could issue the passport and still hold him by refusing to transmit his application for the Swedish visa...