Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign to Southern Africa Support and Human Rights Groups. F.W. de Klerk promised when he unbanned political organizations in February and in subsequent agreements with the African National Congress (ANC) that he would release all political prisoners and allow opposition groups to organize in a more tolerant South Africa. None of this has happened. Not only has the government failed to release even a substantial number of political prisoners, it continues to jail more anti-apartheid activists; less than 200 political prisoners have been released out of 3,000. The mailing says conditions for defendants remain harsh and apartheid "justice" remains in...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign to Southern Africa Support and Human Rights Groups. F.W. de Klerk promised when he unbanned political organizations in February and in subsequent agreements with the African National Congress (ANC) that he would release all political prisoners and allow opposition groups to organize in a more tolerant South Africa. None of this has happened. Not only has the government failed to release even a substantial number of political prisoners, it continues to jail more anti-apartheid activists; less than 200 political prisoners have been released out of 3,000. The mailing says conditions for defendants remain harsh and apartheid "justice" remains in force. The mailing includes HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEFING 42/92 dated December 5, 1990 and HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEFING 40/92 dated November 21, 1990 by the Human Rights Commission. The mailing discusses Internal Security Act detentions, the state of repression, Bophuthatswana, Transkei, Venda, Ciskei, political trials, Nelson Mandela, the Yengeni trial, unrest areas, the Public Safety Act, the State of Emergency, the Maintenance of Law and Order Act, and the National Security Act.
