Red Weekly1976Red Weekly No. 142, 18 March 1976FREE DESMOND TROTTER!
Red Weekly No. 142, 18 March 1976 · p. 2 of the scan · 140 words
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On 18 and 19 March the Privy Council in London, the highest court in the British Commonwealth, is scheduled to hear the appeal of Desmond Trotter. If the appeal is denied, Trotter faces death by hanging.
A militant of the Caribbean island of Dominica, the 21-year-old Trotter has been held in solitary confinement since his arrest in May 1974 on a frame-up murder charge. Trotter was accused of killing an American tourist despite the testimony or numerous witnesses he had been sick at home with a asthma attack when the killing took DIaCe.
As a leading member of the Movement for a New Dominica, and the editor of its monthly publication, Twavay. Picket in London last'year to demand Trotter's release
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