Mozambique: Torturers Will Be Held in Detention Until Trial

Maputo — The five members of the Mozambican police force (PRM), accused of torturing a couple suspected of theft in the southern municipality of Homoine, will remain in preventive detention until their trial.

An investigating magistrate of the Inhambane Provincial Law Court took this decision last Friday, after questioning the five men.

According to a report in Thursday’s issue of the independent newssheet “Mediafax’, the magistrate agreed with the prosecution that the five pose a flight risk,…