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Tortured for watching YouTube
Welcome Zimuto, a student activist from Zimbabwe, had addressed activists when riot police stormed the meeting. All of the attending, 45 student activists and labor union members, was escorted to the police station. The crime they had committed was watching video clips from the demonstrations in Egypt 2011. Welcome experienced violence and torture during the 27 days which he spent in prison. Welcome was sentenced to community service after a trial which went on over one year. He remains expelled from the university.