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SOUTH AFRICAN anti-apartheid campaigner and communist Ahmed Timol was murdered by police, the High Court in Pretoria ruled yesterday — 46 years after his death.
Judge Billy Mothle said Mr Timol was assaulted and tortured from the day he was arrested on October 22 1971 until he fell to his death from the notorious John Vorster Square Police Station on the 27th.
The apartheid regime claimed he took his own life by jumping from the narrow 10th-floor window of an interrogation room.
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
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Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime