On Hunger Strike

UK to continue Zimbabwe returns.

Protesters in London are voicing their opposition to Mr Mugabe. Charles Clarke has rejected calls to stop sending back to Zimbabwe people whose UK asylum claims have failed.
The home secretary said successful applicants could stay - but argued that a blanket suspension of all removals would lead to asylum abuses. Dozens of Zimbabweans in detention centres across the UK have gone on hunger strike, while the Lib Dems urged a review of 116 people's cases. Tory spokesman David Davis called UK Zimbabwe policy a "miserable failure". He said Robert Mugabe's regime was guilty of "crimes against humanity on a massive scale". "We wouldn't be facing the issue we are today if [the UK government] had shown a clearer lead in the past, put greater pressure on governments such as that of [South Africa's] Thabo Mbeki and forced the issue on to the agenda of the UN Security Council," said the shadow home secretary.