Foreigners apply to be released from unlawful custody

On June 1, the foreigners through prominent Francistown-based human rights attorney, Morgan Moseki, petitioned the state to show cause why an order should not be given declaring that the petitioners and their dependants’ continued detention at FCII beyond 28 days since being taken into custody should not be declared unlawful.

Some of the petitioners who are from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Somalia, Namibia and Zimbabwe and their children who are over 250 have been kept in custody at FCII since 2015.