For your consideration:
Gemfields (MRM) accused
of human rights violations
in UK high court
[in Mozambique 417 - July 2, 2018 - Edited by J. Hanlon (UK]
More than 100 small scale miners and local residents brought a legal action in April in the High Court in London against Gemfields alleging that state and private security forces acting for Gemfields have tortured and killed artisanal miners and burned down houses and forced people to move. The case is being brought by London law firm Leigh Day. Gemfields denies the claims but last month requested a three month delay in the court case to prepare its response.
The abuse was first raised by one of Mozambqiue's best investigative journalists, Estacio Valoi, who with another excellent investigative journalist Luis Nhachote has just set up a website Centro de Jornalismo Investigativo (Investigative Journalism Centre)
http://cjimoz.org/
Estacio Valoi's articles are on
http://cjimoz.org/violacao-de-direitos-humanos-em-montepuez/
https://www.zammagazine.com/perspec...vals-of-villagers-from-mozambican-ruby-fields
https://www.leighday.co.uk/News/New...rge-owners-face-London-High-Court-battle-over
[Note: MUS is a neighbor of Gemfields in Mozambique, austral Africa]
