PARAMARIBO, Suriname, Sept. 12, 2014, CNS – Two gay sex workers claim they were assaulted by police officers here earlier this week.
The men, reportedly from Guyana, said three police officers assaulted them close to a police station in the city.
In a statement on Thursday, the non-government organisation, Foundation Loving Hands, said it “is not the first time police officers mistreated the gay sex workers.
“We have spoken to officers at the Keizerstraat station about this on June 26 of this year,” the Foundation said, noting that one female officer has made it a habit of slapping the gay sex workers around and often orders them to show their private parts “so people can see what gender they are”.
In July this year two Guyanese homosexual sex workers were stabbed to death on the streets of Georgetown, allegedly by the spurned lover of another homosexual.
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