On 7 November 2023, police officers brutally assaulted Juma Igiranieza. They punched him repeatedly, hit him with a baseball bat, suffocated him with a plastic bag, and kicked him. He wasn’t suspected of a crime. The cops simply wanted information from him — information he didn’t have.
It was a textbook definition of torture: physically or emotionally harming someone in order to extract information from them.
Unbeknownst to the police, the entire assault was caught on video.
Three of the police officers involved were Colonel Delmore Manuel, Constable Jermaine Conradie and Constable Leigh-Ann Maroon.
More than two years later, the criminal case against three of the cops, Manuel, Conradie and Marron, has been repeatedly postponed. Even though more officers can…
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