full_name: Muhammad Farid Ferhelst
firstname: Muhammad Farid
description: A UDF supporter and member of the BMW who was detained and severely beaten and suffocated while under interrogation by named members of the special police Unrest Investigation Unit, at the Bishop Lavis police station, Cape Town, on 19 June 1987. He was later detained a second time and again severely beaten at the Brackenfell police station. He was not convicted of any of the charges against him.