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Outlook: Fighting for Human Rights in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa

18/06/2013

Fighting for Human Rights in Zimbabwe

BBC World Service - Outlook, Fighting for Human Rights in Zimbabwe

Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has been threatened and attacked for standing up for human rights

Beatrice Mtetwa on her journey from her childhood in Swaziland and being the eldest of fifty children to becoming a campaigning lawyer for human rights in Zimbabwe.

Human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa on how she became a fighter in her childhood and went on to represent Zimbabweans whose rights have been sidelined by Mugabe's regime. Also, Afghan novelist, Khaled Hosseini, talks about life in exile from Afghanistan and how his people and country inspired his latest book And The Mountains Echoed. 

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In Witness, the execution of Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were accused of spying, is remembered by their son Robert. 

Picture: Zimbabwean lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, talking to the press in Harare. Credit: Desmond Kwande/AFP/Getty Images.

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