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Thu 12 Dec 2008Zimbabwean human rights activist kidnapped
LEADING ZIMBABWEAN human rights activist Jestina Mukoko was abducted from her home at dawn yesterday by a group of armed plain-clothes men who identified themselves as police. Her whereabouts are now unknown, writes Patrick Smyth
Ms Mukoko, who visited Ireland in May as a guest of Trócaire, is the national director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, a local human rights organisation that is involved in monitoring and documenting human rights violations.
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