Britain's Foreign Office says it is reviewing the knighthood given to Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.
Then-Prime Minister John Major made Mugabe an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1994 when Mugabe was still considered a hero of the anti-colonial movement.
But lawmakers have called for the knighthood to be revoked given Zimbabwe's human rights record.
Britain's Channel 4 said yesterday officials were taking steps to strip him of the honour.
Immediate action, however, seems unlikely. Earlier this month, Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch Brown told lawmakers now was an inopportune time to revoke the title because it might revive anti-British feeling in Zimbabwe. Britain was once the country's colonial master.
