MAHOMED, Ashraf Allie

Age 17

Description
Was detained on 13 June 1986 during the state of emergency at Uitenhage, Cape. He was held for a year during which he went on an eleven-day hunger strike in protest against conditions at the prison. He was allowed to study for his final school examinations only if he went into solitary confinement. Mr Mahomed had been tortured in detention for several days in 1983, when he was fifteen, and again in 1985. See police brutality.