64 Amani Trust case number 707 Report number Sex male 40 Name P.F Age 23 ID number Province Mashonaland Central District Mazowe Employment Panel beater Date of report 12/02/02 Nature of incident Abduction, assault Date of incident 12/02/02 Perpetrators Zanu PF supporters Case history In early February, P.F. received a warning from a neighbour that he was seen as ‘selling out the country’. Two days later, two men arrived and told P.F. that he would be kidnapped within a couple of days. On 12/02/02 at approximately 03.00h, he was returning from a funeral wake in Dandamera Township,when he was approached by two men. One of them stuck a gun into his ribs, and the men forced P.F. to enter a white Landrover. They drove out of town into the bush where five other men were waiting. The group told P.F. that he had information which they needed. He was then stabbed in the neck with a knife and struck on the head with an empty beer bottle. During the ensuing struggle, P.F. was also cut on the side of his right eye with a knife. P.F. broke free and managed to escape. He sought medical treatment at a hospital and then fled to Harare. Medical assessment SRQ-8 Score: 2 On clinical examination the same day, the patient two 1cm lacerations on his right supraorbital area, a 3cm laceration on his scalp and a 4cm deep laceration in his right anterior triangle of his neck, along the sternocleidomastoid muscle, all of which required suturing. He also had a very swollen painful neck and had difficulty in swallowing. The injury pattern was consistent with the torture described. AMANI TRUST: Beating your opposition. Torture during the 2002 Presidential campaign in Zimbabwe.