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LONDON — Men arrested
under Stormont’s Special Pow-
ers Act are still being treated
brutally. by security forces,
Amnesty International charged
last week in a report on 30
cases, :

The report attacks the find-
ings of the Compton Committee,
set up by the British govern-
ment after internment, which
claimed no brutality had been
used — only physical ill-treat-
ment. Amnesty said in four
“Compton” cases .there was
clear brutality.

The report said that as the
majority of the cases it dealt
with were men who were not
interrogated “in depth” its find-
ings were not affected by any
government decision following
the Compton or Parker reports.

“while it is encouraging to
note that certain techniques of
interrogation have been discon-
tinued, the fact remains that
brutality of the type confirmed
in the present report apparently
continues,” the report states.

Almost all the complaints
made to Amnesty charged that
men had been assaulted by
British troops during arrest and
on the way to interrogation
centres.

“The most frequently report-
ed form of ill-treatment was
beating and kicking when those
arrested stood in an enforced
position against the wall,’ says

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“The allegations regarding in-
juries said to have been caused

by this treatment were largely =

supported by medical evidence.”

Amnesty heard from only one
man who said he had been inter-
rogated in depth, 23-year-old
William Shannon:

“He alleged be had been §

hooded, made to stand in an en-

forced position for hours, put in |

a room with a hissing noise,
given very little food and water
and deprived to sleep.

“Besides Mr. Ssannon there
were seven complainants who
said they had been hooded, and
there was on who alleged that
he had been subject to a hissing
noise.

“Sixteen complainants alleged
they had been threatened in vari-
ous: ways with guns.

“Six said they had’ been

threatened with the use of a

truth drug — and in five cases
syringes were said to have been
produced although, they were
not in fact used.

“The Commission had no op-
portunity to examine members
of the security forces or any
other officials.”

Amnesty asked Prime Minis-

ter Heath for facilities to under-
take the investigation.

“In subsequent correspond-
ence, the United Kingdom auth-
orities refused to grant such
facilities to the Commission,

and did not accept an invitation —

to send an observer to sit with
the Commission.”

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Youngsters flee from the army (above) in loniondaers Bogside

their faces protected from gas which tightens the lungs and tears

at the eyes.

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Heavy troop carrier approaches a barricade in Bony set up by
the people to protect their neighborhoods from British raids.

°°. BAGIFIC TRIBUN

210,000 in Quebec
poised to strike

s we go fo press thousands of teachers, hospital workers and other
blic employees are demonstrating, staging slowdowns and leaving
province-wide strike called for Friday of the 210,000 workers

o be carried on with the government by the Common Front
ree trade union centres — the Quebec Federation of Labor,
rade Unions and the Teachers Corporation, asking a mini-
e increases. The Bourassa regime finally
ith the united body, but hasn't begun to meet the proposals
QFL and CNTU were authorized fo call a general strike of the em-
> ‘ d the strike to begin on Friday if the government
its intransigent position. Labor Minister Jean Cournoyer
duce legislation banning such strikes as illegal.

E— FRI

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