JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nine South African police officers charged with murdering a Mozambican taxi driver who was dragged from a police vehicle have been denied bail.
South Africa's police watchdog
says the police were denied bail at the close of testimony Tuesday in
Benoni Magistrate's Court, east of Johannesburg.
Moses Dlamini, spokesman for the Independent Police Complaints Directorate, also says the next hearing for the police is April 12.
Taxi driver Mido Macia
was dragged from a police vehicle in front of onlookers, some of them
filming the incident after he allegedly blocked a road with his vehicle
in Daveyton township, east of Johannesburg.
Macia was later found dead in a police cell. An autopsy showed that he suffered head lacerations and other injuries.
