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22 de mar. de 2013 · Beatrice Mtetwa has been in detention for six days, arrested under charges of obstruction of justice after interrupting an early morning police raid on the home of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s chief legal officer, Thabani Mpofu. According to reports, Ms. Mtetwa asked police to provide a search warrant and an inventory of confiscated ...
Following the March 2013 referendum on Zimbabwe's draft constitution and with elections expected later in 2013, USIP was proud to host a film screening of "Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law." This film, which was funded by USIP, depicts the work of Beatrice Mtetwa, a courageous human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe, who has defended peace activists, journalists, opposition candidates, farmers, and ...
Savage police beatings, an absence of common law, and a corrupt judiciary form the backdrop for the work of a human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe. Beatrice Mtetwa has been waging a David and Goliath battle, her life mission to defend in court those jailed by the Mugabe government. This revealing documentary is an incredible snapshot of Beatrice's life on the front-line of a 20 year battle as ...
Beatrice Mtetwa is the bravest lawyer in Africa. For over three decades, as Zimbabwe has suffered and declined under the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe, Mtetwa has been fighting to uphold the law in Zimbabwe. Through interviews with Mtetwa, several of her defendants, and experts in the rule of law, the film will give voice to those who have been ...
The film opens with Beatrice saying, "People who do things under the cover of darkness are afraid of light. So, if you come at midnight I'll be there with…
She is a past president of the Law Society of Zimbabwe, a founder member and past Chairperson of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, an Adjunct Professor at Carleton University Law School in Ottawa and an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn. She is the subject of a 2013 documentary, Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law.
Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law, Conway’s current film seeks to highlight the importance of the rule of law by focusing on attorney Beatrice Mtetwa’s efforts in Zimbabwe. In spite of beatings by police and being arrested in March, 2013 she has courageously defended in court those jailed by the Mugabe government—peace activists ...
