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Leading Portuguese Socialist kept on remand

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Lusa news agency web site, Lisbon

The Socialist MP, Paulo Pedroso, has been kept on remand in connection with the Casa Pia [state-supported children's home] case.

This was announced by his lawyer Celso Cruzeiro at about 0845 [0745 gmt] today, after 14 hours of questioning at Lisbon's criminal court.

The [opposition] Socialist Party spokesman has become the seventh person being kept on remand in connection with this case.

2003 May 22