Today, 12 members of Abahlali baseMjondolo from Kennedy Road will be in court following more than a year of delays in this clearly political murder trial.
We would like to declare our full solidarity with our Poor People’s Alliance partner during these trying times.
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Monday, 12 July 2010
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
The Kennedy 12 Case Postponed Until 29 November – the Five Jailed Comrades to be Released Tomorrow
The political interference around this case continued in the lead up to the start of the trial today. The prisoners were not brought to court and the state witnesses were not summoned to appear in court making it impossible for the trial to begin.
Neither the Investigating Officer nor the prosecutor could explain why the prisoners were not brought to the court or why the state witnesses had not been summoned to appear in court.
Friday, 14 May 2010
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
The Kennedy 12 appeared in Y court today. The defence lawyer was finally given case docket. At the hearing the magistrate set down 12 July 2010 as the trial date.
The five who are still in Westville Prison will appear before the same magistrate who refused them bail last year. Their bail application has been set down for Thursday 20 May 2010 at Court 10. The only difference will be that this time the defence will have been able to have read the docket before the bail application. But the accused will have spent eight months in prison before they are able to have a proper bail hearing. If the magistrate refuses bail again the matter will go the High Court on appeal. Read the rest of this entry »
Tue, 2010-02-23 16:18
Revd Roger Scholtz of the Methodist Church has castigated the authorities for turning themselves into oppressors of the people they once liberated. Read the rest of this entry »
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