SAP arrests two Indymedia reporters.

[Matthew X]

BREAKING NEWS - Police Repression Hits Indymedia SA
by Indymedia South Africa • Monday September 02, 2002 at 10:29 AM
Indymedia at 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.
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Booysens gets mentioned here...
http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/ar2000web.nsf/countries/08b35cefab5ad412802568f20055296b?OpenDocument
"...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,..."