Grace Kwinjeh and Sekai Holland taken to SA for treatment

By Violet Gonda
22 March 2007

MDC officials Grace Kwinjeh and Sekai Holland left Harare on Thursday for South Africa to receive medical treatment. They were originally stopped from leaving on Saturday by security agents and were placed under armed guard in the hospital.

The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition said Kwinjeh and Holland, who were seriously injured after they were tortured while in detention recently, had to be ferried on stretcher beds from the plane when they arrived in South Africa.

The emergency evacuation of the two came after a court order was issued on Wednesday granting them permission to leave the country.

The women were escorted to the airport by Australian diplomatic officials as a precaution, because the previous attempt had been blocked by the regime.