Kevin, a man accused of being a thief by civil servants at the Work Inspection office, lies in pain after being attacked by a man with a machete in Bangui, Central African Republic. Foreign journalists intervened and stopped the beating, as the crowd shouted 'he is a thief, he must die'. Police arrived and took Kevin into custody. He was then taken to a local hospital for treatment under police surveillance before being brought before a prosecuting officer

Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP