Ahmed Timol
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title:
Ahmed Timol
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Ahmed Timol was an anti-apartheid activist in the underground South African Communist Party. He died at the age of 29 from injuries sustained when he fell from the top floor of John Vorster Square police station in Johannesburg. Police claimed, and an official inquest confirmed, that Timol had committed suicide by jumping out the window. The claim was widely disbelieved in anti-apartheid circles, and in the movement Timol's death became symbolic of the broader phenomenon of deaths in police cust
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South African anti-apartheid activist (1941–1971)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Timol
date created:
2013-08-28T17:11:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T01:44:14Z
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