Recent News on Zim Prisons
Zimbabwe ’seeks jail crisis aid’
AngolaPress - Apr 2, 2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe has appealed for help for its prisoners after a documentary exposed horrific conditions in the country’s jails, the film’s producer says. …
Zimbabwe prison called ‘death camp’
Aljazeera.net - Apr 1, 2009
Images have been released of Zimbabwean prisoners who are said to be starving and dying of disease, due to meagre supplies and appalling conditions. …
South African TV Documents Misery and Death in Zimbabwe’s Prisons
Voice of America - Apr 1, 2009
By Jonga Kandemiiri An investigative television report by the South African Broadcasting Corporation has detailed the deplorable conditions in Zimbabwe’s …
Documentary shows emaciated Zimbabwean prisoners
Winnipeg Free Press - Apr 1, 2009
Donna Bryson, AP JOHANNESBURG – Newly released images that provide a rare look inside a Zimbabwean prison show emaciated inmates too weak to stand and …
Documentary Exposes Zimbabwe’s Rotten Prison System
ToTheCenter.com - Apr 1, 2009
A documentary shot inside the jails of Zimbabwe has shocked the African nation, who has appealed for help for its prisoners who live in captivity in poor …
Documentary shows emaciated Zimbabwean prisoners
The Associated Press - Apr 1, 2009
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Newly released images that provide a rare look inside a Zimbabwean prison show emaciated inmates too weak to stand and eating as if they …
Zim asks for help to feed prisoners
The Times - Mar 31, 2009
ZIMBABWE’S government has admitted it cannot feed its prison population and urgently needs help to stop the alarming deaths from malnutrition and related …
Zimbabwe prisoners in ‘hell on earth’ die from disease and hunger
Times Online - Mar 31, 2009
A horrifying investigative film, shot undercover in Zimbabwe, has exposed how prisons under President Mugabe have become death camps for thousands of …
Inmates dying of hunger and disease in Zimbabwe’s prisons
SW Radio Africa - Mar 31, 2009
By Violet Gonda Johann Abrahams, a South African Executive Producer for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), has described the conditions in …
ZIMBABWE: Sentenced to disease, malnutrition and death
IRINnews.org - Mar 31, 2009
A Zimbabwean government minister has admitted to the dire conditions being experienced by the country’s 14000 prisoners. “Economic hardships are hitting …
Zimbabwe’s notorious prisons: death row no matter what – Feature
Earthtimes (press release) - Mar 31, 2009
Johannesburg – Zimbabwe’s prisons have long been notorious for being dirty, disease-ridden places of despair, where opponents of President Robert Mugabe …
Inmates Relatives Providing Transport to Court
radiovop.com - Mar 31, 2009
HARARE, March 31 2009 – Prisoners’ relatives are now reportedly being asked to provide transport for the accused persons to attend court sessions, …
Zimbabwe’s prisons are death-traps
The Zimbabwean - Mar 31, 2009
Prisoner taking a shower Zimbabwe’s prisoners are suffering untold horrors in Zimbabwe’s jails. The State is locking them up in hell-holes, condemning them …
Hell hole prisons
Sowetan - Mar 30, 2009
SABC’s investigative journalism programme Special Assignment will tonight flight gruesome portrayal of a humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe’s prisons in an …
Zimbabwe prison compared to death camps
Washington Times - Mar 30, 2009
Halfway through a 25-month sentence for theft, Brian Gumbo is literally rotting away – his skin peels because of malnutrition and the muscles in his legs …
Film exposes Zim jail horror
The Times - Mar 30, 2009
AN EXPLOSIVE documentary to be screened at 9.30pm on SABC3’s Special Assignment shows Zimbabwean prisoners dying of starvation and disease. …
Zimbabwe: Diseases, Malnutrition Hit Prisons
AllAfrica.com - Mar 30, 2009
Harare — THE country’s prisons have been the hardest hit by the current economic challenges resulting in malnutrition, disease outbreaks and the shortage of …
Genocide and human rights tragedy in Zimbabwe’s prisons
Zim Diaspora - Mar 30, 2009
By Thulani Mpofu Zimbabwe’s overcrowded jails have virtually ceased being correctional facilities but places where inmates commonly die of hunger and …
SABC film reveals horrors of Zim prisons
The Zimbabwean - Mar 30, 2009
The South African Broadcasting Corporation SABC, has produced a remarkable documentary about conditions in Zimbabwean prisons which will be screened …
