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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 1. 5 years of pre trial detention in zimbabwe earlier this year. We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Healthcare 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 n

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