Torture Alleged
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, May 15. The International Defence and Aid Fund in Britain has released copies of affidavits signed by 22 South African political prisoners, alleging brutality and torture in the republic’s prisons. Canon John Collins, the chairman of the fund, told a press conference in London yesterday that the documents had been signed by people detained , under South Africa’s apartheid laws, but he would not disclose how the affidavits had
come into the fund’s possession. One of the documents described how a prisoner had been blindfolded and then handcuffed and suspended from a ceiling with only his toes touching the ground. He was punched in the stomach and told he was a “cheeky Kaffir” until he became unconscious, it was alleged. Another prisoner gave descriptions of police officials and their African assistants flogging prisoners with whips, and of women prisoners being lifted off the floor by their hair.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32298, 16 May 1970, Page 11
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