Cecilia Chimbiri
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‘These people are barbarians’: Police torture in Southern Africa
In Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe torture is used to extract information, elicit confessions, punish or sometimes for sadistic reasons
Women who defy Mnangagwa are jailed, raped, tortured
Many of them end up in Chikurubi prison where the cells are cold, the blankets are filthy and the toilets are in the crowded cells
The brutal abduction caught on camera in Zimbabwe
Tawanda Muchehiwa is one of dozens of Zimbabweans who have been kidnapped and tortured by unidentified armed men
End the pandemic of violence against women activists
In countries such as Uganda, Zimbabwe and Egypt female champions are beaten up, sexually abused, jailed and even “disappeared”