Zimbabue Comunicado de Prensa: Jestina Mukoko desaparecida

El pasado 3 de Diciembre, temprano en la mañana, hombres armados secuestraron a Jestina Mukoko, directora de la organización Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), que se dedica a documentar abusos de derechos humanos en el país. Continúe leyendo este comunicado de prensa en inglés.

Jestina Mukoko

Jestina Mukoko, director of the organisation Zimbabwe Peace Project, which works on the recollection and documentation of human rights abuses across the country, has been made disappeared from her home early in the morning last Wednesday.

According to local sources, the civic leader and former television personality was kidnapped in a pre-dawn raid at her Norton home by a group of 15 armed men who identified themselves as from the police Law and Order section. She was taken away still wearing her nightdress and was not allowed to get her shoes or spectacles.  Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights in Harare have been searching for Mukoko in various police stations, but they have not found her.

The kidnapping of innocent civilians is not new in Zimbabwe, the whereabouts of 14 MDC activists and a two-year old baby are still unknown more than a month since they disappeared.

Beatings and arrests of members of pressure groups such as the Women of Zimbabwe Arise, the National Constitutional Assembly and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union  are rampant. 

Civil society begun talking about  transtional justice in Zimbabwe as far back as 2003, in September, with the agreement, there was hope that the transitional period had finally arrived but these hopes were quickly dashed,  this latest abduction dashes the hopes further .  We should not be demoralised but continue to support the organisations and individuals fighting to get us to that period and to a new era for Zimbabwe.        

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