'I beg them to let me go': Sierra Leone's sex workers targeted by police


Film explores how women on the streets of Freetown suffer extortion, exploitation and imprisonment because of archaic laws

Mariatu was 15 years old when her widowed mother died and she ended up sleeping rough on the streets of Freetown where she fell into commercial sex work.

Not long after, she was arrested for “loitering” and, unable to pay a police bribe, spent six months in an adult jail.

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