CIRCULARIZES ALEXANDER CASE
A subcommittee of the United Nations General Assembly has sent out a general circular on the case of Dr. Neville Alexander, thus giving the case official UN status. The decision to do this was taken March 15 by the "Sub-Committee on Petitions" a subsidiary of the "Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Govern-~ ment of the Republic of South Africa,"
The circular listed the main facts in the case, including the names of the eleven defendants now serving sentences of five to ten years for their political opposition to the apartheid policies of the Verwoerd, regime.
The information on the case was provided by the Alexander Defense Committee of New York. The Defense Committee thanked the United Nations body for focusing attention on the case.
The general circular included the "Statement of Aims" of the New York Alexander Defense Committee, This is as follows:
"1. To publicize as widely as possible the case of Dr. Neville Alexander and his colleagues, who have been sentenced in the Republic of South Africa to long prison terms under the notorious Tsabotage! law, .
"2. To provide funds for the defense of Dr. Alexander, his associates, and other political prisoners in South Africa, and to provide for the support of their families as long as they themselves are unable to do so,
"3, Through this case, to focus public opinion in the United States, on the inhuman apartheid policies, pursued by the present government of the Republic of South Africa and on the systematic destruction of civil and political liberties which is the inevitable consequence of the attempt to carry out these policies,
"4. To organize such action as may be possible within the “United States. to compel the government of the Republic of South Africa to renounce its apartheid policies, to amnesty all political prisoners, to repeal its undemocratic restrictions on the rights of free speech and free association, to respect the rule of law in all
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prosecutions, and to ameliorate the unspeakable conditions under which political prisoners are held.
"5, To co-operate as closely as possible with all organiza~ tions in the United States and abroad which have similar goals,"
A copy of the United Nations circular can be obtained by writing to the Alexander Defense Committee, P.0.Box 545, Canal Street Station, New York 10015.
DR. VICTOR ALLEN ON HUNGER STRIKE
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