PANAMA ASKS COSTA RICA TO EXTRADITE N.Z. MAN
SAN JOSE (Costa Rica) May 5. The Panamanian Government is pressing for the extradition to Panama of the New Zealand journalist, Keith Berry, and the American, O’Hanlon, on charges of complicity in a revolutionary plot against the Government of Panama. \
The Panamanian Justice Department has charged that both men landed arms from Costa Rica on the coast of Panama on March 17.
On the representations of the Panamanian Government, Berry and O’Hanlon were taken into the custody of the Costa Rican police last week but were Released for lack of evidence.
Panama now demands the men be arrested and held under the Bustamente Act, which allows detention for 60 days pending submission of evidence in support of an application for extradition.
The Costa Rican police have issued a warrant for the arrest of Berry and O’Hanlon but the chief detective told the Reuter correspondent that the men were hiding.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22940, 7 May 1949, Page 5
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