Horror stories are emerging from Chikurubi Maximum Security prison in Zimbabwe where at least 16 human rights activists are being held.
In a shocking revelation, activists report the youngest prisoner, Nigel Mupfuranhehwe, a two-year-old - who was abducted with his parents Violet Mupfuranhehwe and Collen Mutamagau - was beaten by security agents and needed medical attention.
The lawyers of Jestina Mukoko, the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), have also called for a toxicology report for fear the Zimbabwe government is poisoning her.
Mukoko is being force-fed drugs by the army doctor who oversaw her torture.
She is accused of recruiting personnel for military training in Botswana with a view to unseating the government.
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Also in solitary confinement at Chikurubi are at least 18 other accused.
Beatrice Mtetwa, the director of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, said the medication Mukoko is taking for anxiety and insomnia has been prescribed by an army doctor who facilitated the torture she has undergone.
She was taken on December 3 at gunpoint from her home in Norton.
Mtetwa said: "Mukoko is traumatised. It is not certain she has told the full story because every time she speaks to a doctor or lawyer, a state official is present."
In papers filed in court on Tuesday, Mukoko said she was the victim of an unlawful kidnapping and demanded that her "kidnappers" be prosecuted. She said she was blindfolded each time she was driven from place to place.
She was oblivious to where she was for 19 days.
After denying having trained or recruited for banditry and for working for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, she was assaulted, the court papers stated.
"At first, I was assaulted under my feet with a rubber-like object while seated on the floor.
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