Dr Neil Aggett did not commit suicide. He was killed by the apartheid security police, the Johannesburg high court has found.
Neil Aggett, SA trade union leader and labour activist, did not commit suicide, the Johannesburg high court has found.anti-apartheid activist Neil Aggett’s death was declared a result of suicide while in detention, the Johannesburg high court has found that he waskilled by the security branch police who had severely tortured him for days before he was found hanging in his cell atThe court has now called for the prosecution of the police who were involved in his interrogation and torture.
This comes after the inquest into his death was overturned by the court following the push by his family andLawyers for Human Rights who contended that Aggett, a medical doctor and a trade union organiser, was killed by the apartheid state.one of many activists who died in detention at the hands of the police and whose death was declared a suicide amid a cover-up by apartheid police who enjoyed the backing of the courts which rubber-stamped the deaths.
“There is evidence supporting the view that statements made by members of the police of the security branch, the police officers investigating the death of Dr Aggett and the [inquest] proceedings in 1982 were all part of a cover-up or attempt to conceal the truth about how he died,” Motsamai said.
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