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Muzzled orator: Dudley Laws, wearing beret, attends a news conference held to support him in his defence against slander suit.
Muzzled orator: Dudley Laws, wearing beret, attends a news conference held to support him in his defence against slander suit.

Muzzled orator: Dudley Laws, wearing beret, attends a news conference held to support him in his defence against slander suit.

Date5/23/1991
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0062012F
Black Defence Comm. Dudley Laws
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Seeking change: Black Action Defence Committee organizer Dudley Laws says the purpose of today's protest is not violence, but changing society.
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Tortured. By Peter Rickwood Toronto Star. A 33-year-old Canadian Sikh say he got on help from the Canadian High Commission when police in India detained and tortured him as he was about to fly home. Dalbar Sidhu, a Kitchener auto worker, told a Toronto news conference yesterday he was held at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport for two days. He claims he was denied foor and seep, was threatened with revolver and had his fingernails pulled and hair tugged out of his beard and scalp. His wife Satwant, who was travelling with him, contacted the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi after his arrest said. [Incomplete]
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Dudley laws: Community activist is led away after his arrest on Immigration charges at a Vaughan Rd. office.
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Krishna Menon, controversial former Indian defence minister, cradles his head in his hand during Toronto news conference yesterday. Listening is Romes(...)
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Defence minister, Israel's Yitzhak Rabin tells a Toronto news conference yesterday that his country has found ways to overcome obstacles in the past. We will find ways now
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Troubled beginnings: Community leader Dudley Laws says the friction between Metro's and the police began in 1972 with the influx of new immigrants from the Caribbean, whose customs the police failed to appreciate
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With his predecessor, former Ontario premier Leslie Frost holding his arm, Premier John Robarts attends funeral of former Ontario lieutenant-governor (...)
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His eyes are on the snowbirds, the Canadian Forces aerobatic team, as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau attends opening of Commonwealth Games with the Que(...)
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