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| By Howard Lesser, Voice of America News | |
| Wednesday, 10 December 2008 | |
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December 10, 2008 - Human rights lawyers in Zimbabwe have had their hands full with the past week’s abductions of prominent defenders like attorney Zacharia Nkomo and Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko, who were forcibly seized from their homes during early morning hours by security agents of President Robert Mugabe’s government... AIDS-Free World has urged the UN Security Council to call an emergency session to stop President Mugabe’s ZANU-PF supporters from waging what it calls a second campaign of rape and sexual torture designed to crush the political opposition. Listen to the interview on the Voice of America website: http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2008-12-10-voa6.cfm Click here to download the interview directly to your computer. Bookmark this article with any of these social bookmarking sites:           |
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