Jestina Mukoko

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Jestina Mukoko

Jestina Mukoko is a Zimbabwean human rights activist. She is the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP).

Life

The trained journalist and former news anchor of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation works for the Zimbabwe Peace Project , an organization founded in 2000 with financial support from the Dutch and Canadian governments, whose reports on the situation in the country are sent to African and Western embassies in Harare for confidential evaluation be used in diplomatic correspondence. Mukoko collected evidence against President Robert Mugabe's regime and built a network of human rights defenders.

Mukoko was abducted from her home in Norton on December 3, 2008 by about 15 armed men . Oppositionists assume that the ruling party is behind the kidnapping. According to her 15-year-old son, the gunmen pretended to be police officers. In the days after Mukoko's abduction, activists Zacharia Nkomo , Brodrick Takawira , Pascal Gonzo and Gandhi Mudzwinga were also kidnapped.

Since the beginning of January 2009, Mukoko and a few other supporters have been standing trial in Harare for conspiracy to lead a coup. Among other things, they are said to have planned the overthrow of President Robert Mugabe and already made initial preparations, including the recruitment of people and their military training in Botswana . She is currently in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison .

After various courts ordered her release in the course of the trial against Mukoko at the end of 2008 without the police complying with these demands, the human rights activist was released from the detention center on March 5, 2009. While in detention, she was subjected to repeated torture, including multiple bans on medical care.

On December 10th, 2009, the international day of human rights, the human rights award of the city of Weimar was awarded to Jestina Mukoko and Sonja Biserko from Serbia. As part of the “Parliamentarians protect parliamentarians” initiative of the German Bundestag , MP Marina Schuster tries to get Mukoko.

In 2010 Mukoko received the International Women of Courage Award for her commitment .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alex Duval Smith: Missing activist was 'collecting evidence' on Mugabe crimes. In: guardian.co.uk. December 14, 2008, accessed December 23, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Fateful Day for Mukoko. In: az.com.na. January 2, 2009, accessed January 19, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Political drama continues. In: az.com.na. January 5, 2009, archived from the original on November 5, 2011 ; Retrieved January 19, 2009 .
  4. ^ Zim court delays activists case for the second time. In: Mail & Guardian online mg.co.za. January 6, 2009, accessed January 19, 2009 .
  5. ↑ south africa - magazine on southern africa, 2/2009
  6. ↑ http://www.menschenrechtspreis.de
  7. ↑ Press release - June 29, 2012 "Parliamentarians protect parliamentarians" reports success: Former Ukrainian Environment Minister Heorhiy Filipchuk is free again ( Memento from April 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) German Bundestag , June 29, 2012.
  8. ↑ US Department of State - 2010 International Women of Courage Award Winner Biographies - Jestina Mukoko, Zimbabwe (English), accessed March 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Mukoko, Jestina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zimbabwean human rights activist, director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century