'337 have died in S.A. police cells’
NZPA-Reuter Geneva A United Nations conference on racial discrimination has been told that 337 people have died in South African police cells between 1974 and 1977 while awaiting trial. Branimir Jankovic, vicechairman of a United Nations group of experts on southern Africa, said that 92 had died in 1975, 117 in 1976, and 128 last year.
He toid the conference to combat racism, now in its second week that there was a growing list of detainees who had died in South
African jails in circumstances that were not only mysterious but also clearly outside the law. Mr Jankovic said his working group from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights had recently gathered first-hand information in Lusaka, Dar-es-Salaam, and London. Kassim Mwamzandi, Kenyan Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, said the two-week conference should press for a total ban on the supply of oil to South Africa and all foreign investments in the white-ruled republic.
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Press, 23 August 1978, Page 8
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