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
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
Development community says the elections fell short of the requirements of the constitution of zimbabwe, while the european union says acts of violence and intimidation resulted in a climate of fear. zimbabwe s leader has dismissed the criticism, and insists the elections were fair. earlier, i spoke with david carroll. he leads the carter center s initiative on developing standards and best practices in international election observation. thank you so much forjoining us. i understand you have recently returned from zimbabwe. in terms of what you and your field teams observed, was this a free and fair election? well, ijust got back earlier this morning, and the carter center had a team of about 60 people, and i would say the assessment of the carter center and the other organisations the international observers from the southern african