This mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign discusses the agreement the apartheid government signed with the African National Congress (ANC) in May 1990 stating that it would release all political prisoners by April 30. In the year since the government unbanned the ANC, it has released only 267 of the over 3,000 political prisoners. The government has consistently raised obstacles to releasing them. Human Rights activists identified over 3,000 political prisoners, 55 of them on death row, at the end of 1989, and the de Klerk government refused political prisoner status to all but 600 of them. The mailing asks people to send messages to Ambassador Harry Schwarz at the South African...
This mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign discusses the agreement the apartheid government signed with the African National Congress (ANC) in May 1990 stating that it would release all political prisoners by April 30. In the year since the government unbanned the ANC, it has released only 267 of the over 3,000 political prisoners. The government has consistently raised obstacles to releasing them. Human Rights activists identified over 3,000 political prisoners, 55 of them on death row, at the end of 1989, and the de Klerk government refused political prisoner status to all but 600 of them. The mailing asks people to send messages to Ambassador Harry Schwarz at the South African Embassy in Washington, DC. The mailing discusses Umkhonto we Swize, the Pretoria Minute, Barberton Prison, and Robert McBride. The mailing includes: OUT BY APRIL! POLITICAL PRISONERS: TO BE OR NOT TO BE, an ANC Press Release on the Issue of Political Prisoners, and PRESS STATEMENT RE. ROBERT MCBRIDE by the Political Prisoner Release Programme.
