Full at http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/a_call_to_help_zimbabwe_prisoners
Right now, six people are being held in solitary confinement in Zimbabwe -- released from their cells each day, according to a report from family members, for just 30 minutes in the morning and another 30 minutes in the late afternoon. They have not even gone on trial yet. When they do, the death sentence is a real possibility. Their offense is that they organized a meeting where video footage from the recent mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt was screened and the events there were discussed.
I do not know this for certain, but it seems likely that they also may have incited people to commit acts of reading. One of the masterminds behind the gathering, after all, was was Munyaradzi Gwisai, a former Member of Parliament and leader of the the International Socialist Organization of Zimbabwe. He also teaches labor law at the U of Z. You know how it is with both professors and radicals. They are always trying to get you to read something.