Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law

Savage police beatings, an absence of common law, and a corrupt judiciary form the backdrop for the work of a human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe. Beatrice Mtetwa has been waging a David and Goliath battle, her life mission to defend in court those jailed by the government as Zimbabwe''s civil society slowly crumbles beneath the oppressive weight of the Mugabe dictatorship.