Dennis Brutus, has been transferred from Leeukop Prison to the prison on Robben Island, :
Asked for what reasons Brutus had been transferred, the spokesman of the fascist-like government said that the transfer had ‘been. carried out in accordance with departmental policy. He did not specify what this policy is. The conditions under which political prisoners are held on Robben Island are modeled on those used by the . Nazis in their concentration camps,
The case of Dennis Brutus came to world attention last fall, The educator committed the "crime™ of criticizing the South African government!s racist policy in sports and advocating that the country's teams be banned from the Olympic Games, He also attended a banned meeting,
While awaiting trial, Brutus fled to the British protectorate of Swaziland where he applied for political asylum, This was still pending when he started on a trip abroad, In Mozambique, the Portuguese secret political police arrested him and his companions and handed him over to the South African police,
The South African cops took him to a police station, There they claimed he tried to escape and they shot him as he was running away. Two bullets, firéd at his back, entered his stomach strangely enough, from the front. - ~ When he had recovered enough to be hauled out of the hospital on a stretcher, he was taken to Johannesburg's principal jail, "the Fort,
At his trial, the white judge decided to exercise clemency because of the "punishment" already inflicted on Brutus by the police and "lightened" his sentence to eighteen months in prison, ‘[Sce World Outlook September 27, October 4, 1963, and January 24, 1964,] ©
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