UK gives Mugabe torturer asylum:reports

A man who carried out acts of torture for Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe has been allowed to live in Britain - to protect his human rights, British news reports say.
An immigration tribunal has ruled Phillip Machemedze cannot be deported from Britain, despite finding the 46-year-old inflicted terrible injuries on political opponents of the Mugabe regime, the Daily Mail reported on Friday.
The tribunal said Machemedze could himself face torture if he was returned home, having turned his back on Mugabe's regime, the Mail reported.
Both Machemedze and his wife were allowed to stay in the UK, after a judge ruled sending Machemedze back to Zimbabwe breached his human rights, the Sun newspaper reported when the story broke in the UK on Thursday.
Machemedze worked as a bodyguard to a senior Mugabe regime minister, as part of the feared Central Intelligence Organisation, the reports said.
The tribunal heard Machemedze helped "slowly kill" members of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party whose limbs were then hacked off, The Sun reported.
Court documents exposed the horrendous acts he allegedly committed as a state-sponsored torturer.
The tribunal heard he smashed one victim's jaw with a pair of pliers, before pulling out a tooth.
Another victim, a farmer accused of supporting the MDC, was shocked with electric cables, slapped, beaten and punched unconscious.
Mr Justice David Archer admitted Machemedze was "deeply involved in savage acts of extreme violence", the Sun reported.
But the judge added: "Whatever crimes he has committed, he cannot be returned to face the highly likely prospect of torture and execution without trial."
Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May will seek to overturn the judge's ruling, The Sun reported on Friday.