Two men, who successfully appealed for their lengthy jail sentences, including life imprisonment, to be quashed, walked ...

The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has commissioned a new driving school at Chikurubi Training School, ...

A book chronicling the life of opposition stalwart and human rights defender, Job Sikhala was bought for US$760 by ruling ZANU PF deputy youths commissioner and president for Africa youths congress, ...

A Chikurubi prison employee, speaking to The Times on condition of anonymity for fear of dismissal, said 250 bodies were buried in a mass grave at the prison late last year.

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 ...

Spread This NewsBy Mary Taruvinga A psychiatric patient who had previously served jail time for murder has killed two more ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — A Zimbabwe opposition figure who spent nearly two years in pretrial detention is set be freed after a magistrate sentenced him to a suspended prison sentence on Tuesday for ...

LUKE Zinyengere is a name all inmates who were at Harare Remand Prison, including myself, on March 23 would love to forget. He single handedly invited the full wrath of the Zimbabwe Prisons and ...

Simon Mann in 2009, after being released from prison in Equatorial Guinea. ... Mr. Mann in 2004 at Chikurubi Prison in Zimbabwe, where he said he was “an aristocrat in the prison hierarchy. ...

Liveson also complained about prison conditions at Chikurubi as well as the poor diet and overcrowding. “The place is overcrowded, dirty and there is a shortage of water at the prison, ...

“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.

Once sentenced, he went to Chikurubi prison in Harare for three and a half years; then to Black Beach prison in Malabo, to serve 32 years. After less than two, he was released and thrown out of ...