South Africa: Cape Town Church Provides Refuge to Foreign Nationals Violently Moved By Cops

Hundreds of foreign nationals sought refuge in Cape Town's Central Methodist Church after police fired stun grenades to get them out of the arcade where they were holding a sit-in outside UN offices.

After the initial shock of removal by the police, with the Methodist Church's Reverend Alan Storey at times positioning himself in front of the water cannon, those who had escaped arrest moved in to the church building on Greenmarket Square.

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