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Zimbabwe's jail likened to death camp - 02 Apr 09
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: May 13 09
Witnessed: 869 times
Regions: Zimbabwe
Issues: Justice, Prisons, Torture
Tags: human rights violations, starvation
Secretly recorded footage has emerged showing horrific conditions inside a Zimbabwean prison, where inmates are deprived of food and medical care.
Roy Bennett, an official in Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, has likened conditions in Zimbabwe's prisons to Nazi death camps.
Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports.
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