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Every one of the 18 officers at a Portuguese police headquarters have been accused of torment, capturing and different wrongdoings professedly roused by racism, prosecutors have said. The Lisbon prosecutor's office said on Tuesday the violations allude to an episode in 2015 when police conflicted with young black men who had endeavored to challenge another young fellow's capture in a poor neighborhood close to the Portuguese capital. The officers, speaking to the whole police compel at the station in Alfragide, will confront trial for "torture and other cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment", unlawful detainment, grave manhandle of their forces and infringement of their obligations, the prosecutor's office said on its site. Police reacted on Tuesday by conjuring the guideline of the assumption of honesty, including that two officers had effectively confronted disciplinary approvals. The charges were brought after a joint examination by prosecutors and the Judicial Police that took after objections by the groups of the six men. In February 2015, five of the men, matured 23 to 25 at the time, went to the station to challenge the "subjective and rough" capture of one of their companions from Cova da Moura, a ghetto only 15 minutes head out from the focal point of Lisbon. The five men were then likewise kept and "embarrassed", the Diario de Noticias daily paper revealed, refering to the determinations of a legal examination. The six were held for 48 hours, amid which they were "casualties of enormous physical and mental viciousness by authorities of an expert commanded by sentiments of xenophobia, despise and racial separation," the Portuguese day by day said. At the time, the officers said many young fellows had attempted to constrain their way into the police headquarters to free their companion, asserts that were repudiated by the casualties and different witnesses. Each of the six men were later cleared of charges of opposing capture and ambush.