A group of seven Tanzanian human rights victims has launched a legal claim at the British High Court against a subsidiary of Canadian mining company Barrick Gold.
The claimants allege that they have been seriously abused by security forces employed at Barrick’s North Mara gold mine, in Tanzania.
The claimants reside in local communities around the mine and include a 16-year-old youth who says he was shot in the back and then beaten by the police employed by the mine and a man who says he was seriously assaulted by the police on the mine site.