Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign mailing. The mailing says July 18th marks the 70th birthday of jailed African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela, but there will be no celebration; Mandela has served almost 25 years of a life sentence for treason and is a symbol of the aspirations and determination of South Africa's people to end apartheid and establish a democratic state. The mailing says according to South Africa's Centre for Applied Legal Studies, 37 political trials involving 112 accused were completed between December 1987 and March 1988. The mailing says 11 treason trialists launched a hunger strike. The mailing says it is important that the international community continue...
Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign mailing. The mailing says July 18th marks the 70th birthday of jailed African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela, but there will be no celebration; Mandela has served almost 25 years of a life sentence for treason and is a symbol of the aspirations and determination of South Africa's people to end apartheid and establish a democratic state. The mailing says according to South Africa's Centre for Applied Legal Studies, 37 political trials involving 112 accused were completed between December 1987 and March 1988. The mailing says 11 treason trialists launched a hunger strike. The mailing says it is important that the international community continue to work for the unconditional release of Mandela and the other political prisoners and detainees held in apartheid's jails. The mailing discusses Moses Mayekiso, the Sharpeville Six, Lekoa town, Deputy Mayor K. J. Dlamini, Lucas Sethwala, Robert McBride, the 1976 Soweto uprisings, the Detainees Parents' Support Committee (DPSC), human rights, electric shock torture, the Internal Security Act, and children. • POLITICAL TRIALS • CAPITAL PUNISHMENT UNDER APARTHEID • DETENTIONS CONTINUE • CONDITIONS IN PRISON • WHAT YOU CAN DO
