Zimbabwe 'tortured coup suspects'
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Two South Africans cleared of charges of plotting a coup say they were stripped and beaten in a Zimbabwe jail.
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Wednesday lashed out at police for treating him "like a common criminal" after he was briefly detained in the early hours ahead of a protest against President Robert Mugabe.
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Zimbabweans who have fled to South Africa marked the International Day Against Torture on Tuesday by recounting their experiences at the hands of President Robert Mugabe&#39;s security services.
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A suspected mercenary on trial in Equatorial Guinea for an alleged British-led coup plot involving Mark Thatcher retracted his confession yesterday and said he had been tortured.
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Equatorial Guinea has told a court he and his comrades had been chained like animals and tortured into confessing. and hand-cuffs to plead their innocence on Thursday.
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More than 80 Zimbabwean activists are in police custody a day after they were arrested, the opposition says.
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Nigerian police routinely torture suspects, shooting them in the legs, beating them and hanging them from the ceiling for long periods, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture said on Friday.
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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe&#39;s president, has rejected a request from Equatorial Guinea for the extradition of 70 alleged mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in the west African country.
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Fresh accusations of torture at the US Guantanamo Bay prison emerge during the trial of five detainees transferred to Morocco.
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Two South Africans acquitted by a Zimbabwean court of plotting a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea returned home Saturday, saying they had been tortured while imprisoned in Zimbabwe.
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The lawyer for the jailed British mastermind of a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea urged a Zimbabwean court to quash a bid to have him extradicted to Malabo, saying he would not get a fair trial.
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The Obiang regime in Equatorial Guinea yesterday jailed 11 foreign mercenaries for up to 34 years, as documents surfaced further implicating Mark Thatcher in a British-led coup attempt which has caused international embarrassment.
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Zimbabwe arrested a senior South African intelligence agent last month and has since charged five prominent Zimbabweans with espionage, security sources said Thursday.
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Iraqi authorities routinely torture  prisoners, a leading human rights group said on Tuesday, citing  examples of abuse which will sound all too familiar to those  who suffered under Saddam Hussein.
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Lawyers are being arrested, beaten and harassed as part of a systematic campaign of vilification by Zimbabwe&#39;s government, the International Commission of Jurists said Monday.
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Zimbabwe's attorney general faces  corruption charges after being briefly detained over  allegations he promised to help a fugitive banker who had fled  the southern African nation avoid arrest, police said on  Thursday.
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PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni ordered the arrest of the thugs who took hostage state minister Maria Mutagambaâs aides after security briefed him on the rescue plan.