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December 09, 2009


DNA testing

Protest over wide ranging police powers to take samples.

DNA analysis was developed in the 1980s and has become an important tool in criminal prosecutions. The Swiss police can request DNA samples even from people suspected of minor offences, and civil rights campaigners argue that their powers are too wide. Protestors took to the streets recently to argue the point. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch/SF 9.12.2009)



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