Judicial killings high in S.A.
NZPA Geneva South Africa has one of the world’s highest rates of judicial executions, a special United Nations committee on southern Africa says in a report to the 43-nation Human Rights Commission, which is meeting in Geneva. It said that 96 people had been hanged in 1981, compared with an average of 130 in each of the three previous years. The number of detainees had reached a record
104,622 in February last year. The report said that allegations of torture and assault had increased,. and 353 people were killed by the South African police during 1980 and 1981 "in the execution of their duties." During a commission debate on apartheid yesterday, Ghana's Ambassador, Annan Cato, said that about 50 people had died in South African prisons under suspicious circumstances.
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