Abahlali Shackdwellers Spend Human Rights Day Being Assaulted at Police Station
on March 21, 2007
Category: Social Movements, South Africa, Action Alert, Racism, Human Rights
Most of the Kennedy Road Development Committee [Abahlali Shackdwellers] Spend Human Rights Day Being Assaulted in the Sydenham Police Station - UPDATE in a politically motivated exercise as only community leaders were arrested on trumped up murder charges by the police.
At 3:00 a.m. this morning 9 residents of the Kennedy Road shack settlement were arrested by the notoriously racist and violent Sydenham Police. At 11:00 a.m. this morning two of the nine, Sindi Maluleka and Zonke Mxele, were released. They reported that they had been punched and subject to verbal abuse that specifically targeted their membership of the shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. They also reported that on their release they had been told that they would be re-arrested if they did not swiftly contact Detective Inspector Luthuli on 073 232 0022 to inform him of the whereabouts of another 10 Kennedy Road residents, all of whom who have leadership positions in the community, who are being sought by the Sydenham Police - criminalising the poor…………..MORE
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March 31st, 2007 at 4:44 am
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2. Black Looks
April 11th, 2007 at 7:20 am
[…] Since the early morning arrests on Human Rights Day, 5 Kennedy Road leaders remain in prison and are now in the 9th day of their hunger strike in protest against the wrongful arrests which they believe are politically motivated to destroy the Kennedy Road Development Committee and the whole Abahlali movement which has been successful in preventing the development for commercial and residential purposes land that was promised to them. All the men have now been moved to Westville Prison hospital. The men were arrested following the death of a man from outside the settlement who committed a mugging . The man who was caught and assaulted by some community members and also the police who had been called in and he subsequently died in police custody. […]