This document features cases of victims selected from the report “South Africa: State of fear” (AFR 53/09/92) published in June 1992. Cases featured include: the assassination of ANC member Tsepo Lengwati and attacks on others connected to the ANC, namely Siza Rani and Jerry Maine; alleged security...

This report documents evidence of security force involvement in killings, torture and attacks on political opponents. They occur during a time of political transition from white minority rule; AI believes them to threaten prospects of democratic change and calls for an investigation of all abuses...

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This statement focuses on the high level of political violence in South Africa in 1991, particularly in the townships in Johannesburg, Natal and Cape Town. Reports of extrajudicial killings and attempted assassinations were frequent; many of these occured during attacks by armed members of the...

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This document reports the death under torture of Mauro Martins Solano, aged 17. He was accused of stealing some electric domestic appliances and was detained on 22 September by agents of the Civil Police near his home in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso. He was subsequently taken to Santa Isabel Police Station...

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On 3 December 1982 Brazil’s Supreme Military Court (STM) gave its ruling following an appeal by two French priests Aristide Camio and François Gouriou. It slightly reduced the severe sentences imposed by the Military Court in Belém on 22 June 1982. Father Camio’s sentence was reduced to 10 years’...