This mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign says six months after the official deadline for all releases to have been completed and over a year since the government signed that agreement, South Africa's jails are still holding people opponents of apartheid; it is estimated that there are nearly 800 political prisoners scattered throughout the country, nearly 50 of whom have been on hunger strikes for over one month. The mailing includes a list of prisoners currently on hunger strike. The mailing asks if apartheid is dead why is the government still jailing people for fighting it? The mailing asks people to send letters, telegrams or call South African Ambassador Harry Schwarz at the...
This mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign says six months after the official deadline for all releases to have been completed and over a year since the government signed that agreement, South Africa's jails are still holding people opponents of apartheid; it is estimated that there are nearly 800 political prisoners scattered throughout the country, nearly 50 of whom have been on hunger strikes for over one month. The mailing includes a list of prisoners currently on hunger strike. The mailing asks if apartheid is dead why is the government still jailing people for fighting it? The mailing asks people to send letters, telegrams or call South African Ambassador Harry Schwarz at the South African Embassy and demand that the South African government release all political prisoners by New Year's Day. [Note: There is a separate mailing of the same date of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign; they were sent together in one mailing.]
