Statement from the Foundation for Human Rights: Warrant Of Arrest Issued For Ahmed Timol`s Murder

30 July 2018

Activist died after fall from 10th floor or roof of police building nearly 47 years ago

The Justice & Accountability Network, a team of lawyers, investigators and activists who worked with the State to re-open the inquest into the death in apartheid police custody of Ahmed Timol in October 1971, has learned that a warrant of arrest for murder and defeating the ends of justice has finally been issued for one of the former security policeman implicated in Timol`s killing.

Former security police sergeant Joao Anastacio "Jan" Roderiques, 80, is expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate`s Court tomorrow.

http://www.ahmedtimol.co.za/warrant-of-arrest-issued-for-ahmed-timols-murder

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