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Broadcast: Jan 02 2003


 


Zimbabwe has released more than 10 percent of its prison population in a post-Christmas


3)amnesty, following repeated complaints from human rights groups and the justice ministry 1 about severe overcrowding in the country's jails.


Frankie Meki, spokesman for Zimbabwe's prisons department, said Thursday that 3,600 prisoners are being released from overcrowded jails around the country.


He said eight categories of prisoners benefited from the amnesty, particularly women who were breastfeeding and those who had been jailed for 4)infanticide and 5)abortion 2.


In addition, all prisoners over the age of 60 have been released, as well as those who are disabled or terminally ill and those serving sentences of less than a year.


According to human rights groups, most of the terminally ill prisoners who have been released are suffering from HIV-AIDS.


The prisons department said the amnesty did not apply to prisoners 6)sentenced to death.


Mr. Meki said Zimbabwe has the prison capacity to hold 16,000 inmates 3, but in the last year the prison population had soared to more than 24,000.


Prisoners released from jails in the last few months have complained that they were not given enough food and the cells were 7)filthy.


At the maximum-security prison outside Harare, Prisoners say a 8)chronic water shortage, has made conditions dangerously unhealthy.


Nearly all Zimbabwe's prisons were built during the colonial era, and few have been upgraded since independence in 1980.


Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa pledged last year to reduce prison overcrowding following widespread complaints about conditions in jail.


Peta Thornycroft for VOA news, Harare.


1)    inmate[5inmeit]n.入狱者, 被收容者


2)    overcrowding  过度拥挤, 挤满


3) amnesty [5Amnesti]n.(尤指对反政府政治犯的)特赦


4)    infanticide [in5fAntisaid]n.杀婴, 杀婴者


5) abortion [E5bC:FEn]n.流产, 堕胎


6)    sentenced to判处,判决


7)    filthy[5filWi]adj.不洁的, 污秽的, 丑恶的


8)    chronic[5krCnik]adj.慢性的, 延续很长的


 



1 ministry
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
2 abortion
n.流产,堕胎
  • She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
  • A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。
3 inmates
n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )
  • One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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a tame jolly
abrasin oils
actinidioides
aggregate social capital
air actuator
all-rubber adsorbent
amreit
animal lover
Anna May
apheretic
ASBD
aulacaspis maesae
auxiliary tone
awanting
bearing rod
binary composition
brand choice behaviour
calciorrhachia
calleoon
capillary poisons
change of flag
cheilopogon spilopterus
choleic acid
clairvoyances
connected word recognition
cost row
creation of pledge
cyclopentadienyl
Deal I.
deer-likest
demagnetisation(-zation)
descriptive crystallo graphy
Devil's Triangle,the
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double cutting separating disk
doulces
ectylurea
embouchures
fallen woman
frame photography
gelfilm
Golshahr
greenebaum
hexanediamide
ier
informal coalition
inhibitory state
initiation of lactation
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isomitrinermine
Johor Bahru
Jonchery-sur-Vesle
kinetomere (lima-de-faria 1949)centromeric chromomere
leaders
liberal zombie
licenced pilot
light-buoy
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mast cell
Masterone
medium-speed pump
metapodosoma
milaneses
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nanocircult
Nymphaeineae
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Piskorzów
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quarterplate
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recirculation reactor line
sample details
semiconductor cell
software masking
space filling
starboard tack
Suaeda prostrata
Sungai Bayor
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tanked it
territory health quarantine
theurgies
title insurers
total salt content
transverse palsy
Trinitarians
tutu
ultradetailed
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UOMS
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Upington
veratrum
VHF TV transmitter
Vidago
XHTML MP
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