Jestina Mukoko, Director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, was released from three months of detention on Monday 2 March, though she will still have to face charges of attempting to remove President Robert Mugabe from power.

“It’s a sad indictment of our justice system that it couldn’t do anything at all to release her before today, and it’ll be three months tomorrow since she was unlawfully abducted”, said Beatrice Mtetwa, her lawyer. “It’s amazing how three months of your life can be taken away just like that, and the justice system doesn’t do anything about it.”

Mukoko received a conditional release on US$600 dollars bail and is currently in hospital undergoing analysis to determine how the treatment she received in prison has affected her health.