Video: Imam Haron Inquest | First witness takes the stand

The first witness has taken the stand in the reopened inquest into the apartheid-era death of Islamic religious leader and anti-apartheid activist, Imam Abdullah Haron. Lt col Deon Daniel Petersen, who was two years ago tasked with investigating the matter, has testified that he could not find any record of the Imam having been treated for a fall down a flight of stairs between the 19th of September and the date of his death in 1969. The security police at the time attributed his death in detention to injuries sustained during a fall at the then Caledon Square police station in Cape Town. The Imam was found dead in his cell in Maitland on the 27 of September, after 123 days in police detention.

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