South Africa to reopen Steve Biko inquest 48 years after death in police custody

South Africa to reopen Steve Biko inquest 48 years after death in police custody

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Death of anti-apartheid activist in 1977 after police beat him into a coma sparked outrage across the world South African prosecutors will reopen an inquest into the death of the prominent anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, nearly 50 years after he died in police custody. Biko, the founder of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement, died in a prison cell in 1977 aged just 30, after being beaten into a coma by police who had arrested him nearly a month earlier. Continue reading...

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Original reporting: World news | The Guardian

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