ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO DEATH ROW INMATES DENIED APPEALS SINCE 2005

as many as 20 Bulawayo death row prisoners in Zimbabwe have been unable to benefit from their automatic right to appeal since 2005, because the courts have a shortage of transcribers. Charles Nyatanga, the registrar of the High Court, described the development as a “crisis”. The Supreme Court comes to Bulawayo three times a year and also deals with cases from the Gweru and Hwange Circuit Courts.