detained a conderable time and it was to be hoped they would have been released prior to independence and the Emergency Regulations rescinded.

The scan: The Week v5 no18.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Tesseract OCR) from a scan of a stencilled typescript and has not been corrected. Expect misread words; titles in particular are often garbled where the issue printed no contents list. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: large-type headline; heuristic; title from the OCR of the heading.

It is most disturbin, to learn that, on the contrary, the Guyana authorities envisage the permanent enactment of repressive legislation The implication would seem to be that indepencence may be followed by a new wave of arrests despite the fact that conditions in the country are now quiet. For a government to take such powers permanently suggests that it intends to suppress its political opponents and to remove those fundamental freedoms of spgech and opinion which are written into the Universal Declaration of Hunan Rights, It is clearly very difficult to intervene in this matter when independence is so near, yet the fact remains that at this stage the Sritish Government still has a responsibility and it would surely ve tailing in its duty if it allowed independence to procecd unhindered under Mr. Burnham's threat. We trust that before Vay 26th effective steps will be taken to safeguard human rights in Guyanae Yours faithfully, Donald Bell(Gen.Sec., Amnesty Inte. national) John A.F. Ennals(Director Gen,, U.N. Association). William Hamling. Eric Lubbock, Ian’Gilmour,