Specific Cases Ÿ On 21 March, High Court Judge Justice Mary Zimba-Dube ordered Home Affairs Minister, ZRP Commissioner-General and the Prosecutor-General to pay damages amounting to $17 075 to pro-democracy campaigner Cynthia Manjoro as compensation for wrongful arrest, detention and malicious prosecution over claims that she participated in the murder of a ZRP officer in 2011. Ÿ In March, the Bindura Magistrate Court ordered Home Affairs Minister Obert Mpofu and the ZRP Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga to pay more than $30 000 as compensation to villagers whose property and homesteads were demolished during forced evictions instigated by the country’s former First Lady Grace Mugabe in 2015. In January 2015, ZRP officers raided and demolished the Mazowe villagers’ homesteads at Manzou Farm, in Mazowe District in Mashonaland Central province, without obtaining a court order to justify the forced evictions. During the forced evictions, ZRP officers destroyed homesteads, household furniture and the villagers’ crop produce including maize grain and groundnuts. Ÿ In April Plumtree Magistrates Taurai Manuwere ordered the ZRP, Home Affairs Minister and a commuter omnibus driver to pay $4 098 in damages to Constance Tshuma as compensation for some injuries and the disfigurement she suffered on 23 October 2014, when a ZRP officer indiscriminately fired a firearm at a stationary vehicle in which she was travelling in from Plumtree to Bulawayo at a roadblock. Magistrate Manuwere ruled that the ZRP’s conduct was not reasonably justified and there were other avenues of arresting the commuter omnibus driver for breach of the law. Ÿ On 5 October, the High Court endorsed a deed of settlement for the satisfaction of damages suffered by human rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko in the amount of $100 000, and a further $50 000 as a contribution towards her legal costs. The High Court ordered that the total payment of $150 000 must be made on or before 31 October. Jestina Mukoko, the Director of NGO the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) and Board Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO forum was abducted by some unidentified armed men from her home in Norton on 3 December 2008, and her whereabouts together with two ZPP employees Broderick Takawira and Pascal Gonzo, who were also abducted later in December 2008 remained unknown until 24 December 2008, when they first appeared before the Harare Magistrates Court. This was after weeks of being held incommunicado and being tortured. In September 2009, the Supreme Court granted a permanent stay of Mukoko’s prosecution due to the violation of several of her fundamental rights by state security agents, who had subjected her to torture and inhuman and degrading treatment including simulated drowning, being locked in a freezer and being subjected to physical assaults. In 2017, the High Court had ruled that those who had illegally arrested her could be held liable in their own individual capacities. Ÿ In October, High court Judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi ordered the ZRP and Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister to pay $13 500 in damages to 64-year-old Lillian Chinyerere as compensation for the pain she suffered on 26 August 2016 after some ZRP officers assaulted her by kicking her repeatedly with booted feet and struck her several times with truncheons, while sitting near Rotten Row Court in Harare. Lillian Chinyerere, who suffers from high blood pressure and is diabetic, suffered the brutal assault in full view of the public and also suffered physical harm as well as harm to her dignity. She suffered injuries to her back and shoulder and was unable to proceed with her job as a tailor due to the injuries sustained. 64 STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ZIMBABWE 2018