MAURITIUS (PRISON SENTENCE)

HC Deb 14 March 1951 vol 485 cc177-8W

102. Mr. Rankin

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will make a statement on the imprisonment of Mr. Guy Rozemont, the President of the Trades Union Congress and a member of the Legislative Council in Mauritius.

Mr. Dugdale

On 21st February, 1951, Mr. Rozemont was sentenced by the Supreme Court of Mauritius to six weeks' simple imprisonment for contempt of court for having, at a public meeting, made references to three district magistrates calculated to lower the authority of the courts presided over by them and to bring them into disrepute.