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JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court tossed out terrorism charges against the prominent human-rights activist Jestina Mukoko on Monday, ruling that she herself had been terrorized when state security agents abducted and tortured her.
“I am so relieved, I can barely express it,” Mukoko said after leaving the courtroom in tears.
The ruling represented a rare triumph for human-rights activists in Zimbabwe, though it remains to be seen whether the decision signifies any real shift from the repression that has marked much of President Robert Mugabe’s three decades in power.
