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The Hour After Midnight investigates the contested death of Dr Neil Aggett under apartheid detention, uncovering state surveillance, torture, and decades-long struggles for truth, justice, and accountability in South Africa.
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00:09Neal Agat
00:10Comrade, we've been fighting for this in West,
00:13a trial like a comrade to Neal Agat for many years.
00:16We are clear today because now we are in front of this court.
00:21My brother's death has left an open wound which has never fully closed,
00:26and I would like to have closure.
00:29Neal Agat, a doctor, was arrested with his girlfriend, another doctor, Liz Floyd,
00:33on November the 27th last year.
00:36Held for 70 days in solitary confinement,
00:38he was found hanged in his cell on February the 5th, aged 28.
00:43Do you accept the official version that Neal committed suicide?
00:48Cannot accept it. I cannot in words.

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