EVENT INFORMATION

5
December
1956

Police arrest 156 Congress Alliance leaders in the Treason Trial raids

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Organisatiegeschiedenis 📅 5 December 1956 📍 Zuid-Afrika

Police raided homes across the country before dawn and arrested 156 people involved in the Congress movement, charging them with high treason. Those arrested included ANC, Indian Congress, Congress of Democrats and FEDSAW activists, among them Albert Luthuli, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela and Lillian Ngoyi. The raids targeted a multiracial alliance and the political programme expressed in the Freedom Charter. The prolonged trial ended with all remaining accused acquitted in 1961.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

ANC

Congress Alliance

FEDSAW

Albert Luthuli

Walter Sisulu

Oliver Tambo

Nelson Mandela

Lillian Ngoyi

Organisaties in dit Evenement

African National Congress