EVENT INFORMATION

4
September
1984

The International Committee of the Red Cross visits Mandela at Pollsmoor

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Biography 📅 4 September 1984 📍 South Africa

A delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited Mandela at Pollsmoor. The visit brought an international humanitarian body into a prison system whose conditions the apartheid state tightly controlled. Monitoring did not end political incarceration, but it created an external channel for attention to the treatment of political prisoners.

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People in this event

Nelson Mandela

Organizations in this Event

International Committee of the Red Cross

Pollsmoor Prison

South African prison service