ATTORNEYS for acting assistant superintendent of prisons Garth Guada maintain their allegation that Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander is abusing the emergency powers to unlawfully detain their client.

In a swift response to the minister’s attorneys, Guada’s legal team said his detention under a preventive detention order is unjustified, disproportionate and politically motivated. Attorney Krystal Primus alleges that Guada is being “kept in a cell and tortured on the orders of the minister.”

Primus responded to a pre-action response from Alexander’s attorneys on September 24.