The press release says the Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law was informed on January 25 of the murder of a young South African, Sicelo Godfrey Dlomo. Dlomo appeared in a recently aired CBS network documentary on Children Under Apartheid, and his story was also featured at public hearings on Children in Detention In South Africa sponsored last June 25-26 by the Lawyers Committee to generate public attention to the South African government's detention of more than 10,000 children under the authority of its declared State of Emergency since June 1986. The press release says Sicelo Dlomo was first detained in June, 1986; he has described being tortured and held in solitary...
The press release says the Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law was informed on January 25 of the murder of a young South African, Sicelo Godfrey Dlomo. Dlomo appeared in a recently aired CBS network documentary on Children Under Apartheid, and his story was also featured at public hearings on Children in Detention In South Africa sponsored last June 25-26 by the Lawyers Committee to generate public attention to the South African government's detention of more than 10,000 children under the authority of its declared State of Emergency since June 1986. The press release says Sicelo Dlomo was first detained in June, 1986; he has described being tortured and held in solitary confinement, and security police tried to get him to become a police informant. The press release says on January 20, the security police raided the headquarters of the Detainee Parents Support Committee in Johannesburg; they found Dlomo there had held him for "questioning" for several hours. The press release says the Lawyers Committee has contacted the South African Ambassador P.G. Koornhoff urging a thorough investigation into Dlomo's death by an independent body such as the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists. The press release says the Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law is the only American group that for the past 20 years has provided direct assistance to the defense of political prisoners in South Africa, including hiring lawyers, paying legal fees, and providing technical assistance. The press release discusses Gay J. McDougall, Sylvia Jele, Soweto, Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Paul Simon, Senator Carl Levin, Senator Lowell Weicker, Representative Bill Gray, former Senator Dick Clark, Cyrus Vance, Dr. Robert Coles of Harvard University, Randall Robinson, Eleanor Smeal, Eleanor Holmes Norton, The Rev. Dr. William Sloane Coffin, Judge Nathaniel Jones, John Healey of Amnesty International, Mary Futrell of the National Education Association, and Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund.
