However, SANTOC’s members, together with experts on torture from the pre and post apartheid era, are deeply concerned about the conditions under which the WOZA leaders were held in Mlondolozi Prison (Bulawayo) during their three-week detention.
SANTOC therefore calls on the South African government and SADC to press Robert Mugabe at this weekend’s Summit to grant the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) immediate access to all Zimbabwean prisons, so that the ICRC can investigate the conditions under which prisoners are being held, especially women.
Statement issued at the Meeting on Torture Rehabilitation in South Africa: Lilliesleaf Resource Centre, Johannesburg, 6/11/08..