Cecil the Lion

Zimbabwe will not charge US dentist for killing Cecil the lion

By Reuters — October 12, 2015
HARARE (Reuters) Minneapolis dentist Walter Palmer would be free to visit Zimbabwe as a tourist in the future but not as a hunter. The implication was that Palmer would not be issued the permits a hunter needs.

Let Cecil the lion’s death shine light on Zimbabwe’s human rights abuses (COMMENTARY)

By Brian Pellot — July 29, 2015
(RNS) The Internet melted when news broke that a Minnesota dentist had killed Zimbabwe’s most beloved big cat. Allow me to steal Cecil’s spotlight for a moment with five facts about the country’s egregious human rights record.
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