Wednesday, 21 March 2007, Human Rights Day
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Most of the Kennedy Road Development Committee Spend Human Rights Day Being Assaulted in the Sydenham Police Station

Kennedy Road and Other Settlements Are Currently Mobilising to March on the Sydenham Police Station

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At 3:00 a.m. this morning 9 residents of the Kennedy Road shack settlement were arrested by the notoriously racist and violent Sydenham Police who have not been shy to make very clear the political nature of their sustained violent persecution of Abahlali activists overtly. At 11:00 a.m. this morning two of the nine, Sindi Maluleka and Zonke Mxele, were released. They reported that they had been punched and subject to verbal abuse that specifically targeted their membership of the 'red shirts' i.e. the shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. They also reported that on their release they had been told that they would be re-arrested if they did not swiftly contact Detective Inspector Luthuli on 073 232 0022 to inform him of the whereabouts of another 10 Kennedy Road residents, all of whom who have leadership positions in the community, who are being sought by the Sydenham Police.