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Papua New Guinea: Epidemic of Police Brutality Against Children



Fifteen-year-old boy who said police in Port Moresby beat and cut him in September 2004. "One policeman cut my hand with a pocket knife," he told us. "He was holding my hand tightly when he cut it, but I wasn't handcuffed. All the policemen were holding me. They were saying things like, "You are the troublemaker."

© 2004 Zama Coursen-Neff/Human Rights Watch