Job sikhala, in a location that we have agreed not to reveal, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, steve, for your invitation to this important interview. Well, its important to have you on this show. You emerged from more than a year and a half of pre trial detention in zimbabwe earlier this year. We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Health Care while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And also they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i
Job sikhala, in a location that we have agreed not to reveal, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, steve, for your invitation to this important interview. Well, its important to have you on this show. You emerged from more than a year and a half of pre trial detention in zimbabwe earlier this year. We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Health Care while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And also they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i
We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Health Care while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And also they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i was not shackled. However, i dont want to continuously lament on this because there are several other zimbabweans who have gone through worse treatment by the same regime that has been there since 1980, others who went as far as losing their lives, when they were in a democratic, in the democratic strug
Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. The countries vary. The kidnappers have a wide range of motives and the hot tadges have hostages have varied. Some escaped some were murdered by their captors, others killed by military efforts to free them. Through all these variations the u. S. Governments long standing policy has remained consistent. Al jazeera am lisa stark takes a closeer look. For decades, the rise of terrorism, the u. S. Has had the same official policy, when it comes to americans taken hostage overseas. The u. S. Policy is rooted in tradition and doctrine. Which the premise is, no concessions. No trades, no payments. Reporter but in the last year the horrific beheadings of two american journalists and an aid worker by a group known as the Islamic State and the deaths of other americans held captive have created and uproar. The administration is now reviewing its hostage policy including how it coordinates Recovery Efforts and communicates with families. The review is not
The kidnappers have a wide range of motives and the hot tadges have hostages have varied. Some escaped some were murdered by their captors, others killed by military efforts to free them. Through all these variations the u. S. Governments long standing policy has remained consistent. Al jazeera am lisa stark takes a closeer look. For decades, the rise of terrorism, the u. S. Has had the same official policy, when it comes to americans taken hostage overseas. The u. S. Policy is rooted in tradition and doctrine. Which the premise is, no concessions. No trades, no payments. Reporter but in the last year the horrific beheadings of two american journalists and an aid worker by a group known as the Islamic State and the deaths of other americans held captive have created and uproar. The administration is now reviewing its hostage policy including how it coordinates Recovery Efforts and communicates with families. The review is not reconsidering the long established u. S. Policy of not make