The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force has also referred the case to the SA Human Rights Commission.
To raise awareness of Montsumi’s death, artist Clinton Osbourn on Tuesday drew a life size portrait of her in crayon, laminated it and put it on a pole near the Mowbray police station. Osbourn says he was haunted by Montsumi’s death. “I wanted to make some kind of statement,” he says. “There have been no consequences… Somebody is responsible, but nobody is being held responsible.”
In the drawing, Montsumi is pointing at the police station and has a speech bubble with the words: “My name is Robyn Montsumi. I died in the Mowbray police station on 12 April. My family, my friends and my partner deserve to know the truth about what happened to me. I deserve justice.”Even though Osbourn expects police will take the artwork down, he says he felt a sense of relief once it was up.
Constance Mathe, co-ordinator at the Asijiki Coalition and a friend of Montsumi says the portrait is a beautiful likeness.Like many people in her community, Mathe does not believe her death was a suicide. She says Montsumi had been in the police cells “many times”. Since her death, a number of memorials and protests have been held outside the police station. She hopes the picture stays up “as a memory”.
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