Another death in police custody

Date: 19 Apr 1986
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Johannes Mashego (26) died in police custody in Parys, OFS (now Free State Province). His relatives reported extensive bruising and swollen face upon identifying the victim's body. The police claimed that he died during interrogation.

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01Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 246.

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Another death in police custody. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012646

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