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Women’s groups to demonstrate against police brutality

    ABIDJAN

    Women’s groups plan to hold a protest meeting in Abidjan on Thursday against brutality by the police and gendarmes. The abuses included rapes which, human rights and women’s groups say, were committed against women and girls during protests in early December.
    Participants in the protest are to include the Federation of Women’s Organisations in Cote d’Ivoire (FOFCI) and various NGOs active in the area of human rights, local media organisations reported on Tuesday.

    [See also ‘COTE D’IVOIRE: IRIN Focus on human rights issues’]

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