Mozambican Police Criticised for Abusing Refugees

The Human Rights Associations Forum (FADH) at the refugee centre of Maratane, in the Mozambican northern Nampula province, has written a letter to the Provincial Police Command reporting alleged cases of abuse by the chief of the local police substation in the centre.

Besides the alleged acts of torture, the Maratane branch of the FADH, also denounces alleged misplacing of complaint papers filled by some asylum seekers, victims of ill-treatment.

In the letter, the asylum seekers are complaining of being victims of beatings, torture, and of pogrom perpetrated by some Mozambicans, who are following orders of the commander of that police sub-unit, Mauricio Chicope.

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