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Contents: I. Introduction • II. Definition According to Extradition Treaties • III. The Namibian Precedents • IV. Definition Under Security Legislation • V. Comparative Amnesty Laws • VI. South African Political Prisoners • This paper by Gay McDougall discusses State President F.W. de Klerk, prison sentences, murder, terrorism, arson, the African National Congress (ANC), the Harare Declaration, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the United Nations General Assembly, prisoner release, the South African Bureau of Prisons, the Human Rights Commission, treason, common law, unrest-related offenses, the declaration on apartheid and its destructive consequences in southern Africa, death row, the State of Emergency, the Internal Security Act, detention and imprisonment of political activists without trial, banning of persons, the Terrorism Act, the Sabotage Act, the Criminal Law Amendment Act, the Explosives Act, the Arms and Ammunitions Act, homeland independence, Transkei, Ciskei, Venda, Bophuthatswana, the Public Safety Act, the political offense exception to extraditions, S. v. Devoy, the United Nations Settlement Plan, United Nations Security Council Resolution 435, elections and independence of Namibia, the Administrator-General, Professor C.A. Norgaard, Angula Mwaala, SWAPO, the Security Forces, Silas Mbonge, Paulus Andreas, Afunda Nqhuyolwa, Leonard Sheehama, Walvis Bay, public violence, the Kuisebmond secondary School, police vehicles, Johanna Kambanda, Mingeli Erastus, Paulus Shimbanda, Rosalia Shipiki, Diinina Nakwafila, John Dugard, State v. Budlender, the Riotous Assembly Act, due process, incommunicado detention, the Report of the Commission of Inquiry Into Security Legislation, judicial review, administrative actions, subversion, police shooting of people demonstrating against passes at Sharpeville, armed struggle, the Philippine and El Salvadoran amnesties, the International Committee of the Red Cross, restrictions placed on individuals, residents and civic associations, rent and consumer boycotts against state-appointed Township Councils and local businesses, campaigning to get the South African Defence Force (SADF) to withdraw from the townships, inferior schools, officials appointed under the Black Local Authorities Act, suspected informers, France, and the United Kingdom.

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THE RELEASE OF SOUTH AFRICA'S POLITICAL PRISONERS: DEFINITIONS AND EXPECTATIONS

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