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Ex-Cop In Court for Alleged Involvement in Activist Timol's Death

Ahmed Timol, a South African Communist Party member, was tortured while in police custody. A court ruling in 1972 said that he had committed suicide by jumping from an open window. This ruling was overturned in 2017 and the family are now heading to court for the prosecution of a former policeman who was in the room during Timol's interrogation.

South African Broadcasting Corporation

VIDEO: Warrant of Arrest Issued for Joao Rodrigues in Ahmed Timol's Torture, Murder

Alchetron.com

Ahmed Timol, late South African Communist Party member who was arrested and interrogated by special branch police at John Vorster Square when he reportedly "fell" to his death. The family has succeeded in having an inquest into the death that was ruled a suicide for 44 years.

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