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19
December
1956

The Treason Trial preparatory examination begins

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Biografie 📅 19 December 1956 📍 Zuid-Afrika

Mandela and the other Treason Trial prisoners were held in Johannesburg Prison and brought to a preparatory examination at the Drill Hall. Public protests greeted the prosecution. The proceedings placed a multiracial coalition of organizers under state scrutiny and made the courtroom another arena in which the government attempted to define resistance as treason.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Nelson Mandela

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Congress Alliance

South African government

Judiciary