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Show Witnesses have been subjected to beatings and violence by police and prison guards in an effort to make them renounce all association asso-ciation with the movement, Mr. Hatton. stated. About 50 are now in prison, some were sentenced for two years. "Witnesses" Ousted From Puerto Rico Ten American missionaries were deported to Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic August 3, E. Gordon Hatton, presiding minister min-ister of the South Unit congregation congre-gation of Jehovah's Witnesses, announced yesterday. Fare was paid by the Dominican government and the missionaries were escorted under arrest to the plane. Action came on the heels of "a wave of persecution equaled only in the Communist countries" climaxed by a total ban pre scribing the work of Bible education edu-cation conducted by the Witnesses Witness-es in the Dominican Bepublic since 1945. An ultimatum to the Christian Christ-ian missionaries to renounce all association with the organization and cease communication with their Brooklyn, N.Y., office or leave the country was made last month by Major Arturo Espai- llat, Minister of Security, whom the U.S. government has sought to question in the disappearance of Dr. Jesus de Galindez. Some of the missionaries have been in the country for 11 years. According to the official news "o'Tces of the Dominican Republic, proscription of the Christian activity of Jehovah's Witnesses was legalized by President Trujillo on July 25 and the law carries penalties of from one to three months imprisonment with fines of from thirty to one hundred dollars. It was announced that over $1 million had been appropriated appropr-iated by the Dominican government govern-ment to enforce the ban. Mr. Hatton said a full-scale campaign to to restrict the religious relig-ious freedom of the witnesses has been under way since July 1. Kingdom Hall meeting places had been ordered closed and about ious freedom of the Witnesses has brought in for questioning. The |