Zimbabwe Professor Arrested and Tortured For Watching Online News Videos

Posted by Roblimo on Friday February 25, 2011 @02:08PM from the let's-not-go-there-on-vacation-this-year dept.

An anonymous submitter wrote: "Disturbing reports have come out of Zimbabwe about how a professor who regularly held gatherings to discuss different news topics and social issues, was arrested, charged with treason and tortured for having the audacity to gather the regular group of about 45 people who discuss these things, and showing them some BBC and Al Jazeera news clips about the uprising in Egypt and Tunisia." Quote from the article: "Under dictator Robert Mugabe, watching internet videos in Zimbabwe can be a capital offense, it would seem. The videos included BBC World News and Al-Jazeera clips, which Gwisai had downloaded from Kubatana, a web-based activist group in Zimbabwe."

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Mugabe: Proof that Carter was worst Prez ever by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-25 14:18 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Jimmy Carter gave us Robert Mugabe, amongst a bunch of other failures.
Rant all you want about George W. Bush. Every last one of Bush II's major policy decisions - Gitmo, troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Patriot Act, "illegal" wiretaps, tax rates - has been validated by Obama. Gawd, that's gotta HURT Bush haters.