Innocent
people arrested: Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of crimes,
fabricate evidence
17:15 Oct 2
2015 Garsfontein
SA Police Service, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
Cops in South Africa
often arrest innocent victims of violent crimes and fabricate evidence to
convict them: examples:
Young Soweto man wrongly arrested: spends 8 months on horror-prison as forced sex-slaves of gangs
Young Soweto man wrongly arrested: spends 8 months on horror-prison as forced sex-slaves of gangs
-- The New Age newspaper reported the shocking details of a young man named only as 'Sipho'. He told his story on a South African TV program in the presence of the South African police minister. The young man was arrested for, but never charged with murder.A case of mistaken identity was only discovered after the man had spent eight horrific months in jail.During that time the young man was repeatedly raped as a sex slave and forced into gang life within prison. Following his brief court appearance he was immediately transported to Diepkloof prison, better known as “Sun City”.
Sipho told The New Age, “This is very scary because you hear all these stories about prison and you don’t know what you might go through. So many things have been said about the gangs and the raping in prison.
“When I first arrived at Sun City I was approached by a fellow prisoner in D-Section, who threatened me with a number of horrible things before he told me I would be his ‘wife’. He made me one of his sex slaves within the 28s gang and raped me.”The police’s Gauteng provincial spokesperson, Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini, confirmed with The New Age that: “A case of murder was opened at the Sandton police station after his arrest on June 24, 2011. The only other information we have on the system is that his court case was postponed on December 6, 2011.”
Sipho is considering taking legal action against police, justice and correctional service officials who were involved in his wrongful imprisonment.
