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	<type>AMNESTY DECISIONS</type>
	<startdate>1998-11-18</startdate>
			<names>JOHN HAROLD JEFFERY</names>
	<case>AC/98/0093</case>
	<matter>AM 5963/97</matter>
				<decision>GRANTED</decision>
	<url>https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/hearing.php?id=58650&amp;t=&amp;tab=hearings</url>
	<originalhtml>https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/originals/decisions/1998/981118_jeffery.htm</originalhtml>
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			<text>DECISION</text>
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			<text>                                                             </text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>The Committee after considering the application, the relevant documentation and the evidence, is satisfied that :</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>(a) The application complies with the requirements of Act 34 of 1995.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>(b) The acts, omission or offences to which the application relates are acts associated with a political objective committed in the course of the conflicts of the past.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>(c) That the relevant facts pertaining to the particular offence have been disclosed.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>(d) That the offence does not contain a gross violation of human rights.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>2</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>Amnesty is therefore </text>
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			<speaker>GRANTED</speaker>
			<text>in respect of the following offence</text>
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		<line number="11">
			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>Causing malicious injury to property by spraying political slogans on a bus terminal wall in the George area on the 29th of December 1985, for which offence the applicant was convicted in February 1986.</text>
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			<speaker></speaker>
			<text>SIGNED ON THE   18   DAY OF   NOVEMBER   1998.</text>
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