"Zimbabwe opposition official is released" by Barry Bearak, New York Times | March 13, 2009
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwean authorities released a prominent opposition official, Roy Bennett, yesterday, a day after the Supreme Court granted him bail.... His case is viewed by many as a test of whether the nation is moving back toward the rule of law.
What, after the MSM press built up the monster that is Mugabe (and then just as quickly forgot about it)? WTF is it with the racist, agenda-pushing, s*** AmeriKan MSM, huh, readers?
Besides, there is a CHOLERA EPIDEMIC! What about that, MSM?
For more than three weeks, prosecutors resisted court rulings that granted bail to Bennett, and even after the Supreme Court decision, he was forced to spend another night in his prison cell in the eastern city of Mutare.
"The conditions were absolutely horrific, a human rights disaster," he said in a telephone interview. "People are skeletal as if they were in a concentration camp. Five people died in the cells while I was there, and sometimes they didn't collect the corpse for four days."
He said he shared a cell with 11 others in a space designed for six. "Prisoners are full of sores, and there is a terrible infestation of lice because no one can wash with soap," Bennett said.
Okay, we got it, this guy was tortured and abused, but WHAT ABOUT the PEOPLE DYING from UNTREATED WATER, 'eh?
Agents arrested Bennett on Feb. 13, originally charging him with treason. That allegation was dropped in favor of three-year-old accusations concerning weapons possession and a plot to use the arms against the state.
Bennett denies the charges, and his lawyers say that the case was built on the tainted testimony of someone who now claims that incriminating lies were extracted from him through torture. A crucial ally of the recently installed prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, Bennett is despised by many insiders loyal to President Robert Mugabe....
Well, you go see if there is any discussion of CHOLERA in the MSM War Daily's political bs fooley. I'm really sick of "politics" because it's all agenda-pushing bs fooleys for reader consumption when it changes nothing and tells you nothing.
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