The photograph is not easy to look at, and it's not clear at first glance if Millicent Gaika, the woman in the photo, is dead or alive. Huge purple bruises surround both of her swollen eyes, and her neck is crisscrossed by a number of open gashes and scars.

"In a country long plagued by violence, corruption, and an authoritarian government, Zimbabwe's President Mugabe is known as one of the worst anti-gay autocrats in Africa.