{"id":971,"date":"2012-08-06T08:05:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T08:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=971"},"modified":"2012-08-06T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T08:24:09","slug":"clive-derby-lewis-to-apply-for-medical-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Clive Derby-Lewis to apply for medical parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/clive-derby-lewis_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-807\" title=\"clive-derby-lewis_2\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/clive-derby-lewis_2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/clive-derby-lewis_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/clive-derby-lewis_2.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Former Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis will apply for medical parole because he is ill, his wife Gaye Derby-Lewis told Eyewitness News on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She planned to file the papers in the next few weeks and hoped the attempt would succeed as her husband was suffering from cancer and from gangrene in one leg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was the first time Derby-Lewis would apply for medical parole. He was denied normal parole last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The leader of the apartheid-era Conservative Party, and an MP, Derby-Lewis was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his part in the murder of SA Communist Party general secretary Chris Hani in 1993.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He arranged a firearm for triggerman Janusz Walus, who is serving the same prison term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both were initially sentenced to death. This was commuted to life in prison after the abolition of the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Derby-Lewis is 76-years-old. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sign the petition for his release <a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=803\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis will apply for medical parole because he is ill, his wife Gaye Derby-Lewis told Eyewitness News on Monday. She planned to file the papers in the next few weeks and hoped the attempt would succeed as her husband was suffering from cancer and from gangrene in one leg. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clive Derby-Lewis to apply for medical parole&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[690,687,689,688],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-chris-hani","tag-clive-derby-lewis","tag-conservative-party","tag-janusz-walus"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/clive-derby-lewis_2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}