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South African Press Association - August 22, 2006
"They are removing us forcefully, pointing [at] us with guns and they don't want to let us through," the TAC's treatment project coordinator for KwaZulu-Natal, Cindy Blose, told the South African Press Association.
Blose was at the prison with two of her colleagues and doctors to hand out antiretrovirals to HIV-positive inmates.
"We are not threatening them, we were waiting for the [prison] director's call so that we can go into the prison, but now they are telling us not to stand at the gate," Blose said.
Blose said they were surrounded by four armed warders with dogs.
"There are 13 warders altogether and they have shields."
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