Students say they were tortured while in police
holding cells after being arrested following a class boycott at the University
of Swaziland (UNISWA).
This was reported by the Sunday
Observer newspaper in Swaziland (10
September 2017). The students were at Malkerns police station.
Eight students had originally been arrested after disturbances
at the university on the previous Thursday. Six were later
released without charge. Two were charged with house breaking and theft
charges.
The Observer
reported, ‘Some of the students who were rounded up by police revealed that they
were tortured while inside police holding cells.’
It added that Sakhile Ndzimandze, Secretary General of the UNISWA
students representative council, ‘stated that they have also learned that while
in police custody, [SRC] President [Sibusiso] Siyaya was tortured by police
officers’.
Royal Swaziland Police Service spokesperson Superintendent Khulani Mamba
told the newpaper students who allege they were tortured should report the matter to police.
See also
POLICE
BEATING THREAT CAUGHT ON AUDIO
SWAZI
STUDENT LEADERS ARRESTED
PROTESTS
CLOSE SWAZILAND UNIVERSITY
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