Publication: Cape Argus Issued: Date: 2007-01-09 Reporter: Sapa Reporter:

Call to Free Shaik 'Absurd'

 

Publication 

Cape Argus

Date

2007-01-09

Reporter

Sapa

Web Link

www.capeargus.co.za

 

Calls for convicted Durban businessman Schabir Shaik to be released on medical grounds have been labelled "baseless, absurd" and "opportunistic" by the SA Prisoners' Organisation for Human Rights (Sapohr).

Sapohr president Golden Miles Bhudu was responding yesterday to reports that former Sapohr KwaZulu-Natal chairman Derrick Mdluli was to approach the Minister of Correctional Services "to discuss pardoning Shaik because of his ill-health".

Mdluli made the statements in his capacity as KwaZulu-Natal chairman of the Justice for Prisoners and Detainees *1 Organisation for Human Rights.

Bhudu questioned the organisation's authenticity.

Shaik was admitted to St Augustine's Renal Transplant Unit on November 24 last year. He has effectively spent only two days behind bars. - Sapa

With acknowledgements to Sapa and Cape Argus.


*1       What about justice for perennially suffering citizens, especially taxpayers, the victims of the insidious crimes of corruption and fraud which gnaw relentlessly at the very soul of a free society.