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TIMOL, Ahmed Essop

Age 30

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A member of the ANC and SACP who died in a staged suicide after he had been detained and tortured by members of the Special Branch at John Vorster Square, Johannesburg, during October 1971.

58 Mr Ahmed Timol [JB00173/03WR] died in police custody on 27 October 1971 after allegedly committing suicide by jumping from the tenth floor of security police headquarters at John Vorster Square in Johannesburg. Timol had been in detention for five days. He was the twenty-second person to die ...
 
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