The anniversary of the death of Neil Aggett is a poignant reminder that police brutality is still happening in post-apartheid South Africa.
Doctor says keeping sickly awaiting-trial prisoner in jail is a denial of his constitutional rights. Carolyn Raphaely reports.
Unlike Oscar Pistorius, who awaits trial in luxury, paraplegic Ronnie Fakude had to share a cell with 87 men.
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/ 18 February 2011
The country’s top pathologists say laboratories are running on a backlog of up to 10 years, leaving the criminal justice system in the lurch.
More than four years after a 14-year-old boy allegedly used his trousers to hang himself in a police cell, the inquest into his death has begun.
The death of a teenager in police custody remains a mystery four years after he allegedly hanged himself.