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Fri 12 Dec 2009'They failed to break my spirit' says freed rights campaigner
Jestina Mukoko talks about her experience of abduction by secret police in Zimbabwe to MARY FITZGERALD, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
A YEAR ago this week, Jestina Mukoko was spirited away from her home before dawn by members of Zimbabwe’s secret police. It was the beginning of an ordeal Ms Mukoko, a leading human rights campaigner, knew had become only too common for anyone who dared question the status quo in Zimbabwe. Nothing was known of her whereabouts until she appeared in court on terrorism charges almost a month later.
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