Calls for End of Arbitrary Arrests in Cote d'Ivoire

Amnesty International has condemned a practice known as "mobile detention" - where opposition members are arrested, detained for hours in police vehicles, dropped off, and forced to walk home.

 

 

Election agents (file photo).

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