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Erasmus was on Tuesday giving testimony at the reopened inquest into the death of anti-apartheid activist and trade unionist Neil Aggett, whose body was found hanging at the notorious John Vorster Square police station in 1982. Erasmus has previously testified that the security police were given free rein to use third degree torturing methods on political detainees, including application of electric shocks, forced exercises, deprivation of sleep and beatings which sometimes included the crushing of a detainee’s private parts – all in a bid to break the witness and extract information.
While Aggett’s death was declared a suicide by a previous inquest, his fellow detainees at the time blamed it on the security police who were torturing him. Erasmus said the security police were trained to apply torture in a way that made it difficult to detect when detainees complained.
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