One of the workers from the private security company, Group Four Securicor (G4S), who took part in a demonstration on Wednesday, has died. It is suspected that he died from injuries sustained when the Mozambican Rapid Intervention Force (FIR – the riot police) savagely beat protesting security guards in Maputo.According to the independent television station, STV, the worker whose name has not been revealed, lost his life because he was arrested and sent to police cells rather than being taken to a health unit to receive medical assistance.Other injured protestors only received medical treatment at the Maputo Central Hospital (HCM) 24 hours after their detention following the intervention of a doctor from the Ministry of the Interior.Joaquim Situa, Inspector General of Labour, condemned G4S for making arbitrary deductions from wages, but also blamed the protestors for not abiding by the Labour Law which requires a formal announcement of the intention to protest.Riot police used excessive force last Wednesday to disperse hundreds of workers of G4S, who were protesting outside the human resource department of the Maputo branch of Group Four Securicor (G4S), the largest security company in the world. A riot police unit had been ordered to the scene after protestors broke windows and tore up fencing.The motives for the worker’s discontent are various, but prominent complaints are that monthly wages are subjected to arbitrary deductions, and that holiday bonuses have not been paid.
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