Zimbabwean farmer Mike Campbell, who is 74 years old, was abducted and beaten with rifle butts in June this year to force him to withdraw an international legal challenge to President Robert Mugabe's violent farm seizures. Mike has serious concussion and a broken collar bone and fingers, but he is pressing ahead with the claims. The 10-person tribunal of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the regional bloc, is set to sit in the Namibian capital Windhoek on Wednesday to hear a petition by Mike Campbell, 73, and 77 other white farmers to have Zimbabwe's controversial eviction laws overturned.
