Thursday, January 15, 2009
Rights activist is ‘threat to society’
A top Zimbabwean human rights activist facing charges of recruiting people for insurgency training and terrorist bombings is a “threat to society” and must remain in custody, the country’s attorney general said. The activist, Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko, is behind bars with eight other activists, mainly from the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change. They have been jailed on remand for allegedly recruiting people for banditry training in Botswana.
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