women-activists-from-zimbabwe

"“I came out of this experience not a bitter person, but a better person.”"

"It will not make for lost time as my liberty and all other human rights accorded to me by virtue of my being human was unjustifiably curtailed."

"I came out of this experience not a bitter person, but a better person; better in the sense that I was able to understand what fellow Zimbabwean activists had been going through all this time"

"I am so relieved to know that the charges against me have been dropped, but I think the victory was only possible because of the support from the international community, fellow journalists and colleagues in civic society, and human rights defenders"

"I view the judgment in a positive sense, in that it resulted in a reform of the judiciary, especially at a time when the country is going through a constitution-making process, and that the same charges brought against other activists will be dropped"

"It is difficult at this stage to give a detailed account of what I went through because it is such an emotional subject. I would really have to psych up for that kind of discussion"

"It has been suggested that it may have been because of the work that our organization was doing, but I was shocked that I was being charged for recruiting people to undergo military training"

"I am a widowed mother, and what I went through brought a lot of trauma to my family, especially to my son, who did not know if he had lost the only remaining parent that he had"

"The challenge that we have before us is to heal those wounds. And we need to be able to look back and say we don’t want that to happen again"

"“Many have even risked their lives to advance justice, freedom, and equal rights for everyone.""

"However, it is a victory for the rule of law,constitutionalism and a mortal blow to impunity.**https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/jestina-mukoko-abducted"