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The Haron family seeks to overturn the 1970 inquest and hold Security Branch members accountable for torture and murder.
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The Haron family seeks to overturn the 1970 inquest and hold Security Branch members accountable for torture and murder.
The bruising Imam Abdullah Haron had suffered in detention ‘was likely to have been caused by repetitive kicking, punching and assault’.
The court heard that Imam Haron’s condition worsened considerably after the apartheid security branch took him from his cell and interrogated him at unknown location for 62 hours.
Haron’s injuries were not compatible with those of someone who had fallen down a staircase, says engineer
An expert witness in the reopened inquest into the death of anti-apartheid cleric Imam Abdullah Haron has said his injuries did not match the Security Branch's explanation that he died due to injuries sustained while falling down the steps at Cape Town Central police station in 1969.