Tag: Detention

Free Download The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan
English | May 10, 2022 | ISBN: 1645036669, 1645036650 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 2.5 MB
This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.

Free Download David Smuts, "Death, Detention and Disappearance: A lawyer’s battle to hold power to account in 1980s Namibia"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 062408986X | EPUB | pages: 376 | 2.4 mb
In Namibia, the 1980s were a decade of human rights abuses by South African forces. Justice David Smuts’ gripping memoir details several dramatic cases where it was proven that torture was used to extract ‘confessions’ and that Koevoet killed citizens. He also takes a look at the assassination of his close friend, SWAPO activist Anton Lubowski.