Refugees have won a test case means that hundreds of refugees from the former British colony of Zimbabwe will be allowed to remain in the UK as asylum seekers. President Robert Mugabe has committed thousands of human rights abuses. Anyone Zimbabwean who has claimed asylum in the UK would be targeted as opponents of Mugabe's government, and if they returned could face torture or death..
Decision blasts hole in assylum policy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4342196.stm - Links to the political problems of Zimbabwe "a nation in crisis"
Zimbabwean failed asylum seeker wins British case
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14642291.htm Clarke loses Zimbabwe deportation case
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article319613.ece
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