Two more die in detention
(NZPA Johannesburg I A day after the South (African Minister of Justice (told a news conference that, (everything was being done (to prevent prison deaths,, (two black men were re-[ (ported to have died while in' ;prison custody. | William Sampson, aged 37, (had been found hanging in (his ceil in Cape Town by (strips of blanket, a police' (spokesman said. Sampson (had been arrested on (Wednesday after charges of; I theft had been laid against, (him by his employer. Earlier, the police said I that' Samuel Malinga had; (died in Edendale Hospital,; (near Pietermaritzburg, on' (Tuesday. Colonel C. J. Dreyer, head of the security police, inland]
division, said that the cause of death had not been established. Hospital sources said I that the man. who was being held under the Terrorism Act, which prohibits : access to a lawyer or famlily, had died of a pulmonary , 'embolism or respiratory failure. His death brought to 40 the number of persons who had died in detention since 1963, the "Rand Daily Mail" reported on Thursday. On Wednesday, the Minister of Justice (Mr Kruger)) said that 16 blacks had died in detention since last. March. He said that in addition to people who had died in detention under security laws, another 117 persons had died in prison during the last year. ,
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