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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》
学英语单词
absorption coating
ammonium phosphite
applied electrochemistry
attachment of debt
bad cess to
be admitted to the bar
beryllon II
biopelite
braced frame construction
cabinet-committees
carry to
ceed
Charente
choice of origin
controllable factors
Cēsu Rajons
DACON (data control)
daily bread
detection, state
Dewey County
diletti
drive housing
Dumaring, Sungai
Echinochloa oryzoides
electric signal
encapturing
family cleridaes
flame-proofed
Fly by Night
force on
foulston
fungus (fungi)
glomerular diuresis
Gulag Archipelago
gyro error
Haas effect
high quality factor (high-q)
hoist pump intermediate gear
iced lolly
in-site testing
juluses
lacrimal bulla
Ligamentum thyrohyoideum laterale
macropleural segment
MCtt
melaniferous
melanotype
Mexican typhus
military aeroplane
minimum-phase network
modified silumin
mogurnda
moisture removed equipment
MOU Memoranda of Understanding
mug people
Musculus psoas major
narrower fluctuation margins
navona
near-starvation
neighbor tone
Nerriga
Ngau Tau Kok
noli-me-tangeres
non-leaving ligand
nonthreshold logic circuit
ogival nose
opposing faction
oxotomycin
palatial architecture
piperidinyl
polyadelphous stamens
polystigma rubrum persoon
programming specifications manual
purple-staining Cortinarius
radio-influence field
rafiques
ralik
rayotube
regeneration under clear cutting system
roll bearing
rustick
safety pipet(te)
Saung
seizing signal
sense of purchasing
shortcut key
shot gabardine
so-that
spasm of tongue
superhets
tangle tent
the printing press
threshold dose
tinea palmae
tractus octavo-spinalis medius
turkey's beard
ugly-beautiful
veinstone
wave concept of light
white tie and tailss
worrisomeness