Bailed Roy Bennett tells of horror conditions in Mugabe jail

Roy Bennett, one of the right-hand men of Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai - and an implacable opponent of President Mugabe - walked out of a squalid Zimbabwean jail yesterday.

The 51-year-old Deputy Agriculture Minister-designate was arrested a month ago - as Mr Mugabe was swearing in the Government's power-sharing Cabinet - on allegations of “banditry, sabotage and insurgency”. Emerging from the gates of Mutare remand prison and struggling to hold back tears yesterday, he said that his incarceration had been “a harrowing experience”. More...

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