Zimbabwean human rights activist, Netsai Marova is celebrating her 27th birthday today.
Marova is popularly known for opposing the ruling party Zanu-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa.
She has been tortured several times for opposing the ruling party.
On 13 May 2020 she and two other women, MP Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, were abducted by masked assailants at a Harare protest against the government’s failure to provide for the poor during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two days later, the women were found, badly injured and traumatised, in Bindura by the side of the road sixty miles from Harare by a local man. They reported having been tortured and repeatedly sexually assaulted.
According to a documentary released following the abduction, the girls were monitored through CCTV cameras and data usage to prove that they were not abducted.
The girls are alleged to have gone to a Chicken Inn out to buy food during the day and used data throughout the night during the time they were said to be abducted.
