Zimbabwe

Charges against another 39 people who attended the meeting were dropped this week. A new website has been set up for the Free the Zimbabwean Treason Trialists campaign.

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Human rights and political activists in Zimbabwe are facing a major clampdown, with over 60 currently held in detention and many allegedly tortured. In Harare, 45 people have been charged with treason and face the death penalty if convicted.

Life expectancy is just 33.5 years for Zimbabwean women – the lowest in the world.

At least 18% of the population lives with HIV and AIDS

Of the 1,6-million Zimbabweans with HIV, 55% of are women

The late South African anti-apartheid poet-activist Dennis Brutus occasionally used “Seattle”, the name of a city in the northwestern United States, as a verb.