Gay McDougall, Executive Director of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, in Namibia is shown with some people from the Cassinga refugee camp in Angola who had been detained by the South African Defence Force (SADF) following an SADF raid on the camp in 1978. (Black and white photograph.) Some of the former detainees held a party to thank her for her work in getting them released. Over 600 Namibian refugees died in the South African attack, including women, children and the aged, and at least 120 others were abducted by the SADF and taken to the Mariental Camp in Namibia, where they were held without charge or trial. At the instruction of the...
Gay McDougall, Executive Director of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, in Namibia is shown with some people from the Cassinga refugee camp in Angola who had been detained by the South African Defence Force (SADF) following an SADF raid on the camp in 1978. (Black and white photograph.) Some of the former detainees held a party to thank her for her work in getting them released. Over 600 Namibian refugees died in the South African attack, including women, children and the aged, and at least 120 others were abducted by the SADF and taken to the Mariental Camp in Namibia, where they were held without charge or trial. At the instruction of the Southern Africa Project, a writ of habeas corpus was filed in the Supreme Court of Namibia. An application for the release of the Cassinga detainees, Kauluma and Others v. Minister of Defense and Others, was financed by the Southern Africa Project and filed by the Namibian law firm of Lorentz and Bone. The Cassinga detainees were released in two batches, an initial 54 in the first half of 1984 and the remaining 74 on October 18, 1984. (Source: Gay McDougall; and SOUTH AFRICA 1984: RENEWED RESISTANCE, INCREASED REPRESSION, SOUTHERN AFRICA PROJECT 1984 Annual Report, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, available on this website.) [Note on date: The event happened during McDougall's first trip to Namibia which may have been in 1986 or 1985.]
![Gay McDougall, Executive Director of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, in Namibia is shown with some people from the Cassinga refugee camp in Angola who had been detained by the South African Defence Force (SADF) following an SADF raid on the camp in 1978. (Black and white photograph.) Some of the former detainees held a party to thank her for her work in getting them released. Over 600 Namibian refugees died in the South African attack, including women, children and the aged, and at least 120 others were abducted by the SADF and taken to the Mariental Camp in Namibia, where they were held without charge or trial. At the instruction of the Southern Africa Project, a writ of habeas corpus was filed in the Supreme Court of Namibia. An application for the release of the Cassinga detainees, Kauluma and Others v. Minister of Defense and Others, was financed by the Southern Africa Project and filed by the Namibian law firm of Lorentz and Bone. The Cassinga detainees were released in two batches, an initial 54 in the first half of 1984 and the remaining 74 on October 18, 1984. (Source: Gay McDougall; and SOUTH AFRICA 1984: RENEWED RESISTANCE, INCREASED REPRESSION, SOUTHERN AFRICA PROJECT 1984 Annual Report, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, available on this website.) [Note on date: The event happened during McDougall's first trip to Namibia which may have been in 1986 or 1985.]](/recordFiles/210-849-32642/Untitled-11_002.jpg)