BREAKING NEWS - Police Repression Hits Indymedia SA by Indymedia South Africa • Monday September 02, 2002 at 10:29 AM Indymedia@union.org.za Two Indymedia comrades have just been arrested at NASREC while doing their job Two comrades from Indymedia South Africa, Mabata and another one that at this moment remains unidentified, have been arrested today at 14h00 at NASREC. The two have been transferred to Booysens Police Station. Further reports will follow on this countless act of police repression and intimidation on social movements and independent media workers. END Booysens gets mentioned here... http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/ar2000web.nsf/countries/08b35cefab5ad41280256... "...There were other cases of torture during crime investigation. * In February, in the Johannesburg area of Townsview, members of a security firm, BBR, beat and kicked 19-year-old Archie Ngubalane, whom they had handcuffed to a railing and accused of an attempted stabbing. They threatened to shoot a relative who tried to intervene. Police failed to arrest the BBR members for assault, but arrested Archie Ngubalane and detained him at Booysens police station, where he was denied proper medical care. He was subsequently charged with attempted murder, denied bail and transferred to Diepkloof Prison,..."