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(NEWZIMBABWE) Lifers among 1,500 Zimbabwe prisoners to be freed

Lifers among 1,500 Zimbabwe prisoners to be freed
by Lebo Nkatazo
02/09/2009 00:00:00

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has granted clemency to 1,500 inmates including lifers because prison authorities can’t feed them. Murderers, rapists and armed robbers, among other serious offenders, will not benefit from the pardon, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said. Prison authorities did not say when the inmates, including 89 women, would be freed.

The Zimbabwe Prison Service, in a statement released Wednesday, said the move was a “short-term relief” to deal with “challenges in fulfilling its set objectives and statutory obligations which include provision of prisoners’ rations, clothing and bedding, toiletries among others.”

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