Policing to Protect Humanity

Publisher:: Amnesty International
Publication Date:: 9 July 2004
Tags:: Conflict, Peace and Security

Human rights are under attack every day in countries in southern and eastern Africa. Under pressure to deal harshly with rising levels of crime or through political manipulation, police inflict torture and ill-treat criminal suspects and political activists. Excessive or unjustified lethal force is used to suppress peaceful protest. Government opponents are arbitrarily detained.

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