Civil rights organisations seek answers on death of sex worker in Cape Town

📆 6/12/2020 8:40 PM
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Mowbray residents and members of civil rights organisations took to the streets on Friday, calling for justice for Robyn Montsumi, a sex worker who allegedly died in police custody in Cape Town.

The Black Peoples National Crisis Committee said that Montsumi, 39, died at the Mowbray police station in April.

Lindokuhle Patiwe, BPNCC convener, told TimesLIVE on Friday that about 40 members of civil rights groups and residents marched to the police station to deliver a memorandum.Patiwe questioned whether she had hung herself in custody.Sweat advocacy manager Dudu Dlamini said the organisation was calling for decriminalisation of sex workers.Sex workers who are homeless are also human beings. We want to know what happened to Robyn,” Dlamini said.

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