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"Take that filth away" [Elektronisk resurs] : police abuses against street vendors in Angola.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: [New York?] : Human Rights Watch, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (38 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Other title:
  • Police abuses against street vendors in Angola
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: "Take that filth away"DDC classification:
  • 320 15
Online resources: Summary: "This 38-page report describes how police officers and government inspectors, often in civilian clothes without identification, mistreat street traders, including many women with children, during operations to force them off the streets. Human Rights Watch interviewed 73 street vendors in Luanda who vividly described how police seize their goods, extort bribes, threaten them with imprisonment, and in some cases arrest them. Impunity for such abuses has been the rule."--Publisher's website.
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"October 2013."

"This report was researched and written by a researcher in the Africa Division of Human Rights. It was edited by Leslie Lefkow, deputy director of the Africa Division; Babatunde Olugboji, deputy program director; and James Ross, legal and policy director. Charlene Harry, associate of the Africa Division, provided production assistance"-- P. 38.

Includes bibliographical references.

"This 38-page report describes how police officers and government inspectors, often in civilian clothes without identification, mistreat street traders, including many women with children, during operations to force them off the streets. Human Rights Watch interviewed 73 street vendors in Luanda who vividly described how police seize their goods, extort bribes, threaten them with imprisonment, and in some cases arrest them. Impunity for such abuses has been the rule."--Publisher's website.

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