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Farid Farid

South Africa-born legal expert: Israel apartheid worse

Navi Pillay chaired a UN commission that concluded Israel was conducting a genocide in Gaza. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

Navi Pillay knows intimately what apartheid looks and feels like.

As a defence lawyer in the 1960s in segregated South Africa, the now-renowned legal expert worked for activists exposing torture and helped establish rights for prisoners on Robben Island.

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