Sikhala case clouds Zim’s C’wealth readmission bid

UNITED Kingdom (UK)’s House of Lords member Kate Hoey has said Zimbabwe must not be re-admitted into the Commonwealth club over the country’s deteriorating human rights record and continued detention of opposition legislator Job Sikhala.

Hoey was commenting on Sikhala’s recent emotional letter from prison in which he disclosed that he had developed a strange illness.

“A shocking abuse of human rights by Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF.

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