Zimbabwe Prof Arrested, Tortured for Watching Viral Vids
Found on Wired on Friday, 25 February 2011
All 45 have been charged with treason - which can carry a sentence of life imprisonment or death - for, in essence, watching viral videos.
Gwisai and five others were brutally tortured during the next 72 hours, he testified Thursday at an initial hearing.
Under dictator Robert Mugabe, watching internet videos in Zimbabwe can be a capital offense, it would seem.
Mugabe is known as one of the most ruthless and vicious dictators in the world, and it appears he has managed to terrorize his own people sufficiently that the prospect of any sort of popular uprising is very remote.
Apparently Mugabe is well aware of what's going on in Africa and that the revolutions will spread south too. More and more dictators fall, and it's just a matter of time until his head will roll.