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Reference code
MONT II/A/3/12/1
Title
Telegram from Edwin Montagu to Lord Reading
Date(s)
- 3 Nov. 1921 (Creation)
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(1879-1924)
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Scope and content
He notes that the Ali brothers have been sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment and queries whether such sentences are appropriate for political misdemeanants, since such prisoners need more rigorous separation from the outside world than ordinary prisoners but, in other respects, lighter treatment. Suggest they should be treated as ‘first-class political misdemeanants’.
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