Zimbabwe’s prisons have a capacity of 17,000 but hold more than 20,000 inmates. A freed female prisoner hugs a prison officer after being released from Chikurubi maximum prison on the outskirts ...

Sikhala was arrested in June 2022 and spent 595 days in Chikurubi Maximum Prison, accused of inciting public violence following clashes that broke out in Nyatsime during the funeral of Citizens ...

His story unfolds within the unyielding confines of Chikurubi Maximum Prison—a place where hope flickers like a dying candle. The Wrongful Conviction. In 2011, ...

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After a night there, she was taken to court and then deposited at Chikurubi Maximum Prison. She said there are so many foreign women incarcerated at Chikurubi, most of them Malawians.

Prisoners gather inside Chikurubi Maximum prison before their release on the outskirts of the capital Harare, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted amnesty to ...

The Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare is crumbling at the seams, assailed by overcrowding and a critical shortage of medicines, food and other basics as the economically-crippled country ...

“The [Chikurubi] prison has a holding capacity of 1,360 prisoners and at the time of ZHRC's visit, the prison had 2,270 inmates, making it 69.9 percent overcrowded.

Harare, Zimbabwe – Job “Wiwa” Sikhala has spent the last 17 months in the Chikurubi maximum-security prison, the longest stretch an opposition figure has been held in pre-trial detention in ...

Prisoners are closely guarded at Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe on Jan. 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File) Advertisement ...

Freed female prisoners wait to be released from Chikurubi maximum prison on the outskirts of Harare, Friday, May, 19, 2023. Zimbabwe has begun releasing more than 4,000 prisoners under a ...