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The Supreme Court granted Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko a permanent stay of prosecution in the terrorism case against her because her constitutional rights were violated when she was abducted, tortured, and illegally detained in late 2008.

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Civil rights activist Jestina Mukoko sued Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and the co-Ministers of Home Affairs Kembo Mohadi and Giles Mutsekwa for US$220 000.

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Roy Bennett has been a pain in the neck of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front since he joined the Movement for Democratic Change. The party first chased him off his farm, claimed he was involved in an attempt to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, hounded him out of Parliament, forced him into exile, refused to appoint him deputy Minister of Agriculture. But the man, popularly known in Chimanimani as Pachedu, still hangs on as the chief fund-raiser of the MDC. There are 117 cables on him. Here they are.

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Editors of five privately-owned mainstream newspapers launched a national editors’ forum “to promote and defend press freedom and free speech”.

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The editor of the Zimbabwe Independent Iden Wetherell was arrested on 17 April 2002 for allegedly publishing a “false story” linking the First Lady, Grace Mugabe, to a labour dispute involving her brother.

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Iden Wetherell, the editor of the Zimbabwe Independent, told United States embassy officials that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo now functioned as the nation’s cabinet.

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The editor of the Zimbabwe Independent Iden Wetherell said although there was gap in New York’s landscape following the 11 September bombing of the twin towers, the resilience that the people had shown would see an urban renewal.

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A State prosecutor in the case of human rights activist Jestina Mukoko is said to have told a United States embassy official that attorney-general Johannes Tomana and the government’s chief prosecutor Florence Ziyambi were scared of Mukoko’s case.

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President Robert Mugabe said only a dead imperialist was a good one. He said this when he lambasted the West for refusing to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe.

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Journalists who met in May 2009 in Kariba at a stakeholders conference made 13 recommendations one of which was to repeal the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and another was not to insult the Prime Minister.

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