South Africa: Woman Unlawfully Arrested and Sexually Harassed By Police

It appears South Africans have become "resigned" to the appalling conditions of detention in police cells.

"It has become normal... but it should be elevated as a matter of a constitutional right, for which remedies have to be found," Durban High Court Judge Dhaya Pillay said in a recent judgment.

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