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NEWS > 12 February 2009

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Mozambique: Shot While Trying
A police Commission of Inquiry into shootings by police officers a month ago in the Maputo suburb of Costa do Sol has backed up the initial police version that the three men who died were not summarily executed, but were dangerous criminals "shot while trying to escape".

The shootings were denounced both by the Mozambican Human Rights League (LDH), and by prominent writer Lina Magaia, who lives nearby.

In a letter published in the daily paper "Noticias", Magaia, who is a former parliamentary deputy for the ruling Frelimo Party declared "There are murderers in the police. ... Read more

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Mexican police abusive in reta

Mexico's Supreme Court says that police committed serious abuses when trying to retake control of rebellious town outside the capital three years ago.

The Supreme Court has ruled that police should be investigated for their conduct in San Salvador Atenco, though it absolves the state governor and federal officials who ordered the raid of the abuses.

The non-binding decision came Thursday.

Police intervened in San Salvador Atenco in May 2006 to end protests that erupted after authorities tried to prevent street vendors from setting up stands in a nearby city. Some of the demonstrators kidnapped and beat six policemen.

Nearly two dozen women detained by police claimed they were sexually abused. Others said they were beaten.
 

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