Zimbabwe frees prisoners, including those sentenced to death, in an independence day

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Zimbabwe grants clemency to over 4,000 prisoners, some of whom were sentenced to death

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners, including some who were on death row, in an independence day amnesty on Thursday.Zimbabwe marked 44 years of independence from white minority rule, which ended in 1980 after a bloody bush war. The country’s name was changed from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.The presidential amnesty, the second in less than a year, benefits female, older and juvenile inmates, the termina…