In countries such as Uganda, Zimbabwe and Egypt female champions are beaten up, sexually abused, jailed and even “disappeared”
Zim human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa will oppose the state’s decision to appeal against her acquittal on charges of allegedly obstructing justice.
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A Zimbabwe court has dropped charges against rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa following prosecutors’ failure to present evidence to support their case.
A Zimbabwean court postponed the trial of lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, who is facing charges of obstructing justice, after the magistrate recused himself.
As Zimbabwe approaches elections this year a human rights lawyer has vowed never to give up – even after her own arrest.
Zimbabwean prosecutors have slapped fresh charges on prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa.
Zimbabwean prosecutors have slapped fresh charges on the prominent human rights lawyer for allegedly insulting the police, a legal group has said.
Human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa’s bail hearing seemed to overshadow the plight of her clients, the four arrested MDC party officials.
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Zimbabwe’s top human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa says her arrest was a ploy to intimidate activists ahead of elections in the country.
After more than a week in prison, Zimbabwe’s High Court has released prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa on $500 bail.
In a grey tracksuit, with only her socks on her feet, Mtetwa stood in the back of a police truck as it left Rhodesville Police Station on March 18.
Arrested for ‘defeating and obstructing’ justice, Beatrice Mtetwa remains indomitably defiant.
A Zimbabwean magistrate has denied bail to four aides to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and their laywer, Beatrice Mtwetwa.
Four aides to Zimbabwe’s prime minister have been charged with breaching the official secrets code as their lawyer was accused of obstructing justice.
Beatrice Mtetwa is paying the price of resisting authoritarianism – she is spending her third night detained in a Harare police cell.
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The arrest of his aides is intimidation by political rivals in the run-up to general elections, says Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has been charged with allegedly "obstructing or defeating the course of justice".
A Zimbabwean court is ordering a close ally of the prime minister to be held in jail after his second arrest this month on charges of abuse of office.
Jestina Mukoko, who is to appear on charges of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe, is being poisoned in custody, a media report said.
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/ 25 December 2008
Armed police took a leading Zimbabwean rights campaigner and eight activists to a maximum security prison on Thursday, defying a High Court order.
The leader of a rebel faction of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party was freed on bail on Tuesday after his arrest over a written attack on President Robert Mugabe. A Harare court ordered Arthur Mutambara, head of a splinter faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, to pay Z-billion (about ) and report to police each Friday.
A court in Zimbabwe on Wednesday acquitted a United States and a British journalist of covering the country’s March 29 elections without accreditation. Magistrate Gloria Takundwa said the state’s evidence against New York Times correspondent Barry Bearak and Britain’s Stephen Bevan was ”inconsistent and unreliable”.
Lawyers for an award-winning <i>New York Times</i> journalist and a Briton held in a Zimbabwe jail complained on Monday that they were being given the run-around as their clients spent a fifth day behind bars. Meanwhile, two South African satellite technicians were formally charged with defeating the ends of justice.
A Zimbabwean court has postponed until Tuesday a ruling on the opposition’s legal bid to force the immediate publication of the March 29 presidential election results, lawyers said. ”The matter has been postponed to tomorrow,” opposition lawyer Alec Muchadehama told journalists outside the High Court in Harare.
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/ 6 November 2007
The annual conference of the International Bar Association, the world’s biggest meeting of lawyers, was officially opened in Singapore recently by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. Yew, Singapore’s long-time ruler and a lawyer by training, was in no mind to soft-peddle his prescriptions for the island state’s success. ”If I had permitted freedom of expression,” he confidently announced, ”I would not be here tonight and neither would all of you.”
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/ 21 December 2005
Beatrice Mtetwa, a Zimbabwean lawyer and human rights activist, fights for the right to press freedom in a country facing an economic meltdown.