Human Rights Violation revealed!!!!!

Khami Prison is using “plastics and cardboard box material” as doors and handcuffs as locks, a report by MPs has revealed.
The report, compiled by the Senate Thematic Committee on Human Rights, says cells at one of the country’s largest detention facilities are frequently flooded during the rainy season because of dilapidated roofing.
Prisoners also sleep on the floor because there are no beds or mattresses.
Khami Prison Complex on the outskirts of Bulawayo consists of four penitentiaries: maximum, medium, remand and the women’s prison in Mlondolozi. It holds over 2 000 of the country’s estimated 15 000 inmates.
In their report published last week, the Senators said: “The committee heard that the Zimbabwe Prison Services was failing to maintain the prison complex particularly the infrastructure.
“For example, there were no locks on some doors. Some wooden doors had been attacked by termites and were beyond repair. Plastic and cardboard box materials were used as doors.
“The ablution facilities for Khami Remand were not functional and said to be beyond repair. The situation was worsened by lack of adequate water to flush the system. All this was blamed on the unavailability of funds.
“Window panes were broken and needed to be repaired. Some roof sheets were blown away by winds resulting in rain leaking into the cells.
“The committee also heard that prisoners sleep on the floor because Zimbabwe Prison Services was unable to provide beds or mattresses.
“Within the prison, there are non-functional cells as locks were tempered with by prisoners who wanted to escape sometime in March 2011. The officer-in-charge told the committee that A Hall had 14 while B Hall had 34 non-functional cells.
“The committee also heard that Khami Remand was not allocated funds to purchase padlocks and to replace the wooden doors that were damaged by termites. The officials felt this was too risky considering that there were fifteen prisoners on life sentences at Khami Remand.”
The report said inmates were entitled to three blankets each, but had two.
The senators said Khami Maximum Hospital lacked important machinery like X-ray machines, a CD4 count machine and furniture. The prison had to outsource when a prisoner needed such services which was costly and compromised security.
Khami has an education department that teaches Grade 1 up to “A” Level and there are professional teachers and some inmates who were teachers before incarceration who assist. But the lawmakers found there was no crèche for children accompanying female inmates.
“Prisoners informed the committee that they were being served supper at 2pm and by 7pm they would be hungry,” the report added.
“On homosexuality, the committee heard that the prison had measures to control any incidents of homosexuality. The officer-in-charge informed the committee that offenders were prosecuted.”
Khami Medium sits on 2 777 hectares of farmland and has a herd of 430 dairy and range cattle.
The prison’s garden supplies vegetables to prisons in the whole Matabeleland region, but money generated from farming was said to be insufficient to purchase farm implements and stockfeed for cattle. — NewZimbabwe.com

THIS HAS TO END!!!!!!

Criminalising Zimbabwe’s human rights defenders isn’t necessarily a new strategy for the police, but it is one they’ve adopted in a particularly cunning manner in recent months.

some weeks ago, ZBC viewers saw Zimbabwe’s Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri personally name  Jestina Mukoko as "wanted" accusing her of operating an illegal organization. this automatically labelled her as a criminal which is uncalled for.

 The police described her as “on the run,” even though police had been in touch with her lawyers all week. Mukoko wasn’t in hiding, but she was the wrong person to answer the police’s questions, which were more suitably directed to the ZPP Board Chairperson, not its Director.

Particularly given her 2008 abduction disappearance and 89-day detention,  Mukoko was not in a rush to enter police custody. Be that as it may, on Friday Mukoko presented herself to the police, and was charged with “a litany of baseless charge.” Much to the relief of her lawyers, colleagues and Zimbabwe’s human rights community more generally, Mukoko was not detained on Friday. Civil society has condemned the harassment of Mukoko and other human rights defenders. It seems as though Mukoko is being targeted for the work of the Zimbabwe Peace Project in monitoring violence – particularly election related and political violence. Jestina Mukoko is a determined women but she has to suffer for being that, precisely, there is the violation of her right to - prohibition against torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. as highlighted in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, not only is that right being violated but also her right to- prohibition against arbitrary arrest!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!

Human rights are commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is entitled to simply because they are a human being. rights may exist as natural or as legal rights in local, regional,. national and international law. The adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human rights marks the initial stages in the development of the current international human rights regime. Much energy has been expended to achieve equality and to fight against discrimination. In this process, different groups have been singled out as especially vulnerable: women, children and minorities at large. in recent years, more attention is given to domestic enforcement, including the extraterritorial application of human rights. Serious human rights violations are an important characteristic of contemporary responsibility of their perpetrators and on applicable law. However, in Zimbabwe there are wide spreads of reports of systematic and escalating violations of human rights. According to human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the government of Zimbabwe violets the rights to food, shelter, freedom of movement and residence, freedom of assembly and the protection of the law. there are numerous assaults on the media, the political opposition, civil society activists and human rights defenders. this blog however seeks to engage in the unending scenarios of the violation of human rights in Zimbabwe.