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GERMAN STUDENTS OBSERVE HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
Cite Alexander Case in South Africa
HAMBURG, Jan. 1 == In observance of Human Rights Day, December 10, all German political students organizations issued a joint leaflet of which 100,000 copies were distributed in West German universities, In pointing to the erosion of the gains made in centuries of struggle in this field, the students called special attention to the case of Dr, — Neville Alexander, the prominent young South African scholar and nation= alist now on trial for his life in Cape Town under the notorious act “banning Communism,"
The full text of the leaflet is as follows:
Students for Justice and Freedom
Today, December 10, Human Rights Day is being celebrated in all countries, The German students have a-special duty on this day in | ‘memory of the fate of human rights in the past and at present in Ger~
many. In many countries of the world, these rights continue to be | violated, for instance: Germany
On German territory men are being killed because they are forced . to flee from one part of their country to another,
Art. 13, par. 2 of the General Declaration of Human
Rights: “Everyone has the right to leave any coun-
try, including his own, as well as.to return to it,"
South Africa
In South Africa, those who support peaceful community life among peoples of different races are being arrested and held in jail for ninety days without a warrant or due process of law. Those who.oppose racial discrimination, like the former Ttibingen graduate Dr, Alexander, are placed under threat of the death sentence, In South Africa, marriage between whites and blacks is considered a crime, Eleven million . black South Africans are barred from the ballot box and elective office.
‘The Magna Charta of 1215: "No one-can .be imprisoned
without due process of law,”
Art, 1 of the General Declaration of Human Rights:
"All men are born free with equal rights and dignity."
Angola ~
In Angola the native population has no political rights. Political parties are banned. The people are still deprived of the right to self-determination. Ninety-eight percent of the population is illiterate =~— after 500 years of Portuguese colonial domination,
Art. 21 of the General Declaration of Human Rights:
"All men have the right to participate in the con-
duct of public affairs in their own country either
directly or through freely elected representatives,"
Morocco
In Morocco more than 5,000 supporters of the Opposition, among them 28 members of the opposition in parliament, have been placed under provisional arrest. From reports seeping out, it appears that -many arrested oppositionists have been tortured in an inhuman way.
Art. 5 of the General Declaration of Human Rights:
"No one should be subjected to torture or to cruel,
inhuman or humiliating treatment or punishment."
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Tran Persian students who protest in foreign lands against existing cm~ ditions in their country are made the object of continual reprisals by their government. In their homeland itself, professors or students who support the Opposition are subject to the death sentence.
Art, 19 of the General Declaration of Human Rights:
'RHveryone has the right to free expression of opinion;
‘this right includes the right to defend these opinions
without reprisals, to seek information and ideas
through all means of communication without regard to
frontiers, and to receive and spread them," oe
We, the undersigned confederated organizations of German students, appeal to all students to fight always and everywhere for the realizam tion of human rights...
The Confederation of German Students Associations (VDS.)
The International Confederation of Students (ISSF)
The German Liberal Students Confederation (LSD)
The Christian-Democratic Students Chain (RCDS)
mae BR) mora tie University Students Confederation
SHB
The German Socialist Students Confederation (SDS )
Catholic German Students. Unity (KDSE)
[Editors: The above translation is from the German of the leaflet... Please check egainst the standard tsxts all quotations such as the ones from the 1946 United Nations Declaretion on Humon Rights, ]