gov48. Letter from Southern Africa the Imprisoned Society to Margaret Thatcher
Letter asking Prime Minister Thatcher to intervene with the South African government to stop the hanging of the Upington 14. The 14 were sentenced to death because they were present at a demonstration during which a black policeman was killed. After international protests they were reprieved in May 1991, after two years on death row.
Category: | Government |
Author: | Southern Africa the Imprisoned Society |
Copyright: | AAM Archives Committee |
Holding Institution: | AAM Archive, Bodleian Library |
Catalogue: | MSS AAM 779 |
Date/Year: | 1989 |