Jestina Mukoko, a former reporter at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, appeared in Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court on June 25 to challenge the infringement of her constitutional rights to liberty. State prosecutors conceded in court that security agents had abducted and illegally detained Mukoko in December 2008. She was taken by men in plain clothes, some armed with handguns. Now the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, Mukoko is being charged with banditry, sabotage and terrorism. Read the IFEX alert on Mukoko.