full_name: Merryman Anele Ralana
firstname: Merryman Anele
description: A student activist and East London Youth Organisation member who was tortured while in detention by named members of the SAP at Cambridge police station, East London, in June 1986, during the state of emergency. He was transferred to Fort Glamorgan prison, but was regularly taken to Cambridge police station for interrogation. After 180 days, Mr Ralana and others were redetained and held until June 1987. See police brutality. 