Torture in South African prisons

Jul 22, 11

Posted by Taryn Arnott, Ingrid Cloete and Jeremy Gordin in Politics

Gautengers woke on Tuesday morning to the prolonged screaming of a prisoner allegedly being tortured in Pretoria central prison. Talk Radio 702 aired, on the John Robbie morning show, a recording allegedly smuggled out of the prison – of a remand detainee or ATD (awaiting trial detainee, or, as Judge Johann Kriegler prefers to...