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Political Prisoners in Zimbabwe
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| Conjwayo, Smith and Woods were convicted on the strength of confessions made while being denied legal representation and while their wives and children were being held hostage by the CIO, Zimbabwe's Secret Police. |
| Since their imprisonment in 1988, these men have each spent five years in solitary confinement whilst waiting for the Death Sentence to be carried out. Following their release from Death Row, they have had to endure the most squalid, revolting and dangerous existence imaginable, and all the while receiving intolerable abuse from warders and inmates alike. They are even being denied their fundamental Human Right to treatment for life threatening medical conditions. |
| All prisoners who were imprisoned as a consequence of the ANC struggle for South Africa have been freed in the spirit of reconciliation except for these three unfortunates. President Robert Mugabe has it within his power to draw a line under a particularly brutal and inhumane period of Southern Africa's history by freeing the Harare 3. So far, for some reason, he has not seen fit to do this, in spite of appeals by former President Nelson Mandela and President Thabo Mbeki. |
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Free the Harare 3
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