<p>(Johannesburg) - With four human rights defenders having been abducted in less than one week by people suspected of working on behalf of the Zimbabwean authorities, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Institute called today for an immediate halt to abductions and for the abductees to be freed immediately.</p>
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Children walk past a makeshift house at a slum in Hatcliffe, Harare December 9, 2008. Up to 60,000 people in Zimbabwe could be infected with cholera in the worst case if ...