OHCHR: ‘Mob justice’ cases since 2002 total 73
Publication date 19 July 2019 | 13:32 | ICT

Since 2002, there have been 73 cases of “mob justice”, leaving 57 people dead and 16 wounded, according to an Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report released on Thursday on deaths, beatings and abuse carried

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