NEELS, Phillip Peter

Age 17

Description
Was arrested with ten other friends in Carnarvon, Cape, on 16 June 1986, for wearing black ties commemorating those who died in the Soweto uprising. He was repeatedly beaten by named members of the SAP at the police station and detained under the emergency regulations for 72 days at Carnarvon and then at Victor Verster prison, Paarl, Cape. See police brutality