Zimbabwe: Voices out of the violence
Yvonne Chipowera endured 16 hours of beatings, rape and being urinated on, all because of her support for Zimbabwe's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
She said about 30 militiamen loyal to President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party broke into her house on 9 June in Epworth, a sprawling township on the edge of the capital, Harare. They began marching the 24-year-old MDC activist to a house allegedly owned by a local ZANU-PF leader, beating her all the way.
"Three men pushed me around as we were walking. They took me off the road and blindfolded me. One man held my arms, another pinned down my legs and a third raped me," she told IRIN.
