HC Deb 16 May 1973 vol 856 c341W
Mr. Biggs-Davison

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT details known to him of British journalists arrested, interrogated, detained, restricted, convicted of offences, imprisoned and set at liberty, respectively, in Rhodesia since UDI.

Lord Balniel

Among United Kingdom citizens working primarily as journalists in Rhodesia we know of three arrests, three interrogations by the security forces, one detention, no restrictions, one conviction upheld on appeal, one imprisonment and one release since UDI. But our information is not necessarily comprehensive. We also know that a number of other journalists who have been working for the British media in Rhodesia or are British subjects by virtue of their Rho-desian citizenship have undergone some of these experiences since UDI, but we do not have authoritative information about their cases.

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