[The Herald] President Mugabe has pardoned 20 inmates who were serving life imprisonment, a development that complements the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services' efforts to decongest the prisons. The 20 were recently freed on the Presidential Amnesty and their release coincided with a landmark Constitutional Court judgment declaring it unconstitutional for convicts to be sentenced to life in the absence of the parole board that gives them hope for free- dom.The constitutional challenge was sparked by the preceden ......
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