156 political leaders
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Nelson Mandela's Testimony At the Treason Trial, 1956-1960 |
In response to the growing unity and strength of the Congress Movement as a united front following the adoption of the Freedom Charter, the government arrested 156 political leaders in a mass police swoop on 5 December 1956 and charged them with high treason, a grave charge carrying the death pen |