Zimbabwe Deports UN Rights Expert

United Nations human rights expert, Manfred Nowak, has been deported from Zimbabwe on 29 November 2009 after being detained by security officials on arrival overnight.

Nowak says he had been invited to that country by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai whose power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe is under severe strain.

Nowak points out that, “I had not anticipated this. This is a serious diplomatic incident."

A Reuters reporter saw the U.N. Human Rights Council's special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment being approached by four security officials at Harare airport after he had cleared immigration.

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