Transcript: Detainees

BORDER JUMPER 1: You see these border jumpers who are here.

They are just here for saving their lives.

Life there in Zimbabwe is very tough.

NARRATOR: The leading opposition party in Zimbabwe is the Movement for Democratic Change -- or MDC.

BORDER JUMPERS: Movement Democratic Change!

NARRATOR: Some of the detainees are seeking political asylum in Botswana.

In Zimbabwe, political opponents and critics of President Mugabe are frequently harassed and even jailed for spreading "false information."

BORDER JUMPER 2: I am a journalist and I ran away from Zimbabwe because of what I was saying. Just those few innocent words get you in trouble. A lot of things are happening in Zimbabwe, but there is no one to chronicle that.

All you foreign journalists were kicked out of Zimbabwe because they don't want all that information to leave the country, and a lot of bad things are happening in that country.

Coming here is a cry for help! We are saying to Botswana, please look! Do something! We want to go -- All of us want to go back home.

NARRATOR: Like many of the people here, Solomon is discontented about politics in Zimbabwe, where Mugabe's party swept the last two elections despite widespread opposition.

International observers regard both elections as rigged.

Solomon is not his real name.

SOLOMON: To me it was not free and fair elections.

Because where we lived, we used to be beaten by soldiers.

When you were a group of four or five young people, you were being tortured.

You were not allowed to put on a t-shirt of your party which you support.