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Zimbabwe blocks UN torture official

Source: Al Jazeera
Harare : Zimbabwe | about 1 month ago  
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The Austrian academic had been invited to Zimbabwe by Morgan Tsvangirai, the prime minister, but when he arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa, he was told his visit had been cancelled. Airport officials said that Nowak could be deported from Zimbabwe.
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  • News Source: Reuters | about 1 month ago
    United Nations torture expert Manfred Nowak said on Thursday he would recommend that the U.N. South Africa that his mission had failed. "I think that it is the end of the mission. I think I have not been treated by any government in such a rude...
  • News Source: USA Today | about 1 month ago
    Zimbabwean immigration officials barred the United Nation's torture investigator from entering their country and returned him to South Africa Thursday, an act he termed a "serious diplomatic incident" that reflects a split in the coalition government.
  • News Source: Seattle Times | about 1 month ago
    The United Nations torture investigator says he was barred from Zimbabwe and sent back to South Africa after a night in the Harare airport. An angry Manfred Nowak, speaking to reporters in Johannesburg Thursday upon arrival from Zimbabwe, said he...
  • News Source: CNN | about 1 month ago
    A U.N. special investigator on torture said he was denied entry into Zimbabwe on Wednesday for an eight-day trip to look into alleged attacks against opposition party members. Manfred Nowak learned that his mission had been canceled after he arrived...
  • News Source: South Africa News | about 1 month ago
    Manfred Nowak, UN special rapporteur on torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment told AFP by telephone from inside Harare airport that he had been stopped despite being invited by Tsvangirai. "The immigration officials told us you are not...
  • News Source: Press TV | about 1 month ago
    It's a little bizarre because I do have a written invitation from the Prime Minister who wants to see me tomorrow at 10:00 am," Nowak told AFP on Wednesday. Immigration officials refused to allow Nowak through, saying he had no security clearance.
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  • Blog Source: www.sokwanele.com
    The Special Rapporteur therefore calls upon the Government of Zimbabwe to receive him in Harare and allow the mission to go ahead as planned. Manfred Nowak, appointed Special Rapporteur on 1 December 2004 by the UN Commission on Human ...
  • Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.com
    However, Zimbabwe's government canceled the visit while Nowak was in Johannesburg en route to Zimbabwe, citing talks over the country's fragile power-sharing agreement, the U.N. said. Longtime opposition leader Morgan ... Foreign ministers from
  • Blog Source: www.sofmag.com
    The United Nations says Zimbabwe's government has canceled a visit by a U.N. torture investigator who was to examine alleged attacks on opposition party members. The U.N. human rights office says Manfred Nowak was in South Africa on his way to
  • Blog Source: blog.taragana.com
    “Recent allegations that MDC supporters and human rights defenders have been arrested, harassed and intimidated during the past few days, highlight the urgency of objective fact-finding by an independent U.N. expert,” the U.N. said. ... The visit
  • Blog Source: www.thezimbabwetimes.com
    The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement on Wednesday that Nowak, had been invited by President Robert Mugabe to visit Zimbabwe but on arrival in Johannesburg, en route to Harare, he was informed that ... “Recent
  • Blog Source: www.goodasis.com
    The UN says Zimbabwe has at the last minute withdrawn an invitation to its special investigator on torture. Manfred Nowak was due to start his week-long visit on Wednesday to examine alleged attacks on opposition activists by ... “Recent
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