U.N. Committee Opposes Holding Sex Cases In Secret Courts
LONDON, Oct. 29 (Recd. 6.20 pm). —The United Nations’ Social Committee rejected a Russian proposal approving secret court hearings in cases involving sex offences or “national security,” and adopted a Cuban amendment guaranteeing fair public hearings as part of the draft declaration of human rights, says the Associated Press Paris correspondent. M. Alexei Pavlov (Russia) accused the British delegation of seeking to expose “all the lurid details of rape, sex and juvenile delinquency" in opne trials. He defended closed trials for sex crimes, and added Russia also had occasion recently to try citizens of other countries behind closed doors as a matter of "diplomatic courtesy in delicate cases.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 30 October 1948, Page 5
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