Action Update mailing reports that, on June 13, 1988, the application failed to reopen the trial of the Sharpeville Six on the grounds that the police practiced fraud on the Court by procuring two witnesses to give false evidence. Justice J. W. Human also denied the six Death Row prisoners the right to appeal his decision. Defense lawyers were granted a second stay of execution for the six until July 19, 1988 to enable them to petition the Chief Justice to overturn this denial of the right to appeal. The mailing asks people to telegram/telex/air mail letter to President P.W. Botha and Ambassador Pieter G. Koornhof urging that immediate clemency be granted to The Sharpeville Six and other...
Action Update mailing reports that, on June 13, 1988, the application failed to reopen the trial of the Sharpeville Six on the grounds that the police practiced fraud on the Court by procuring two witnesses to give false evidence. Justice J. W. Human also denied the six Death Row prisoners the right to appeal his decision. Defense lawyers were granted a second stay of execution for the six until July 19, 1988 to enable them to petition the Chief Justice to overturn this denial of the right to appeal. The mailing asks people to telegram/telex/air mail letter to President P.W. Botha and Ambassador Pieter G. Koornhof urging that immediate clemency be granted to The Sharpeville Six and other political prisoners on Death Row. For more information, contact Esmeralda Thornhill or Gay McDougall.
