Word: deffenbaugh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berman E. Deffenbaugh Jr. San Antonio...
...Deffenbaugh said some of the witnesses at the trial testified later that the South African government had tortured them. The state's key witness, whom police detained for eight months without trial, was on one occasion denied sleep for a week, and received only two visits from his wife, Deffenbaugh said...
Under the Terrorism Act, the government can incarcerate anyone at the discretion of a minister of justice or of a police official over the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Deffenbaugh added...
...defendants received sentences ranging from five to seven years, while two other defendants--one allegedly involved in transporting the alleged murderers and the other allegedly involved in the Land Rover deal--were sentenced to death, according to Deffenbaugh...
...Deffenbaugh added that this type of case is typical is South Africa, although the sentences were unusually harsh. He said their severity was probably due to growing government insecurity as a result of increasing guerrilla activities in the north and the fall of the once-friendly colonial regimes in neighboring Mozambique and Angola...