The Zimbabwe High Court has ordered the state to compensate prominent pro-human rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko $150,000 over her abduction and torture by state security agents in 2008. In a joint ...

(MISA/IFEX) – On 13 February 2009, Harare Magistrate Gloria Takundwa ruled for the further detention of Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko into the custody of the Avenues Clinic for ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — A Zimbabwean peace activist has been traced to a notorious maximum-security prison despite a court order that she be taken to a hospital, a leading human-rights lawyer said Friday.

Human rights activist, Jestina Mukoko, says she decided to write a book about her harrowing experience in the hands of Zimbabwean state security agents in order to expose the traumatic encounter.

A High Court judge has ruled that Jestina Mukoko has the right to sue former State Security Minister Didymus Mutasa, Brigadier General Asher Walter Tapfumaneyi, and Zimbabwe Republic Police’s Chief ...

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders hails the release of journalist and human rights activist Jestina Mukoko on 2 March 2009 and urges the authorities to free freelance photographer Shadreck ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- A human rights activist cannot be tried for terrorism because she herself was tortured when police kidnapped her, Zimbabwe's Supreme Court ruled Monday. "I am so ...

A human rights activist cannot be tried for terrorism because she herself was tortured when police kidnapped her, Zimbabwe's Supreme Court ruled Monday. Lawyers appealed for the release on bail of ...

Human rights abuses continue to plague Zimbabwe, but despite the danger, some Zimbabweans have challenged the system by speaking out. One of them is Jestina Mukoko, a human rights activist who was ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — A Zimbabwean human rights activist missing for three weeks was taken to court Wednesday, and state media said she was accused in a plot to overthrow President Robert Mugabe. Late ...