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Red flag raised over abductions, torture
HUMAN rights and other civil society organisations (CSOs) have called on Sadc, African Union and the international community to rein in the Zimbabwean government as tensions rise over alleged abductio...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe troops accused of 'systematic torture' of protesters
A government-appointed human rights group in Zimbabwe has accused soldiers of using "systematic torture" in a crackdown on protests.The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission strongly criticised aut...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top detective prosecuted for torturing suspect
Detective assistant inspector Joseph Nemaisa has been summoned to appear before a Mbare magistrate on February 5 for brutally attacking a suspect and breaking his arm.According to the subpoena...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 10:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa and the white Zimbabwean
Zimbabweans on the 24th of November witnessed the swearing in of a new head of state for the first time in 37 years since indipendence from Britain.His Excellence President ED Mnangagwa was swor...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 07:33hrs | | by Conilious Toga
Cop ordered to pay torture victim
A Manicaland-based Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer is set to lose a substantial amount of his salary after it was garnished by the court to pay a victim that he brutally tortured over two y...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 17:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'torture of arrested persons forbidden'
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said the torture of arrested persons is forbidden as the country is party to the international treaty against the practice.The VP was responding...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman tortures would be rapist
A BRAVE married woman from Binga fought off a rapist who had sneaked into her bedroom hut at midnight by grabbing his manhood until he was weak, a court heard. Mrs Christine Muzamba (21) from ...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 07:03hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Zimbabwe torture case NPA, police to petition South Africa's Supreme court
THE South African national director of public prosecutions and the national police commissioner still want to appeal against a high court judgment which ruled that the head of the Priority Crimes Liti...Published: 17 Jul 2012 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean cop appears in court on torture charges
Two policemen from Pumula North station in Bulawayo who are accused of torturing a city woman during investigations on Wednesday appeared in court facing torture charges.Last week Bulawa...Published: 16 Feb 2012 at 06:47hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
Former MDC MP totally blind after Zanu-PF torture
Former MP Fletcher Dulini Ncube, who was falsely accused of murdering Zanu-PF activist Cain Nkala in 2002, is reported to have recently gone completely blind as the long-term effects of the torture an...Published: 03 Feb 2012 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
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