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THE Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) said today that the country’s security forces abducted and tortured four of its leaders last week.
The CPS said that national organising secretary Bafanabakhe Sacolo, head of youth & students commission Kwanele Fakudze, Simanga Dlamini and Lwazi Maseko were heavily tortured by the Eswatini authorities before being released later on the day without charge.
In 2018, the country, until then known as Swaziland, was renamed Eswatini.
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