Award winning human rights activist, Zimbabwe Peace Project Director, Jestina Mukoko, has recalled how in 2008, she was abducted by 5 unidentified armed men and a woman who were driving an unmarked vehicle with no registration numbers, from her home in Norton.

Mukoko a recipient of the U.S. State Department’s International Women Of Courage award, narrates her ordeal on Twitter.

Mukoko writes : “On this day they came for me at dawn. Incommunicado for 21 was tortured then 68 at Chikurubi. Why subject to abduction it’s cruel inhuman and cruel. My crime: to overthrow govt really ini? zvimwe vanhu itai muchinyara (me overthrowing the government? You must be ashamed of yourselves.)

I was not wearing anything other than a nightdress. I had no undergarments and other personal and medical requirements.

First, I was assaulted underneath my feet with a rubber-like object which was at least one metre long … Later, I was informed to raise my feet on to a table, and the other people in the room started to assault me underneath my feet. This assault lasted for at least five to six minutes. They took a break and then continued again with the beatings.”