Civil rights campaigners demonstrate over DNA tests
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Channel: SWI swissinfo.ch - English · 2009 · People & Blogs
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. They took to the streets recently to argue their case. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch/SF 09.12.2009)
