{
  "id": 16749070,
  "title": "Ahmed Timol was murdered in custody. Why did justice stop there?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/ahmed-timol-was-murdered-in-custody-why-did-justice-stop-there",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-27T13:18:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/mercury/news/2026-10-27-ahmed-timol-was-murdered-in-custody-why-did-justice-stop-there/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The 2017 inquest found that Ahmed Timol was murdered by apartheid security police. But court records show how post-1994 political interference and prosecutorial inaction helped ensure that no one was tried.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}