South Africa: Detaining Me Longer Could Kill Me - Dutch Arms Dealer Arrested in Cape Town

12 December 2017

A Dutch arms dealer, convicted of selling weapons to former Liberian president Charles Taylor and of crimes against humanity, says his further police detention in Cape Town could prove fatal.

Augustinus Petrus Kouwenhoven, 75, says he is so ill that he has about three years left to live.

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