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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Guest Column - A disturbing pattern is emerging across Africa where courts are being weaponised to silence journalists, with ...

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 ...

In a dramatic and emotional moment during the Bulawayo launch of Job Sikhala's memoir, "Footprints in the Chains – The Life ...

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 ...