Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing says apartheid's jails are bulging with 3,000 political prisoners whom the government is trying to ignore; after the formal agreement between the government and the African National Congress (ANC) called the Pretoria Minute, hopes were high that these long held opponents of apartheid would also walk free. The mailing says the government first claimed that there were only 250 to 600 political prisoners, a figure remarkably smaller then estimates of the Human Rights organizations in South Africa and the ANC; the government's figures ignore the 3,000 people labeled "unrest prisoners" who were caught up in violent situations between...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing says apartheid's jails are bulging with 3,000 political prisoners whom the government is trying to ignore; after the formal agreement between the government and the African National Congress (ANC) called the Pretoria Minute, hopes were high that these long held opponents of apartheid would also walk free. The mailing says the government first claimed that there were only 250 to 600 political prisoners, a figure remarkably smaller then estimates of the Human Rights organizations in South Africa and the ANC; the government's figures ignore the 3,000 people labeled "unrest prisoners" who were caught up in violent situations between 1984-89. The mailing says there are a growing number of prisoners infected with AIDs. The mailing discusses political prisoners and says there were 494 political trials completed in the first nine months of 1990. The mailing discusses F.W. de Klerk.
