Source: Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights On Tuesday 27 September 2016, 15 out of the 17 arrested at a Zinasu meeting were set free after Magistrate Poterai Gwezhira declared their arrest unlawful, ordering their immediate release according to section 41(6)(c) of the Criminal Procedures and Evidence Act (CPEA) which clearly states that an accused person […]
Zimbabwe police fire teargas on street vendors
Source: Cris Chinaka, Reuters Original article URL POLICE fired teargas at stone-throwing vendors resisting removal from city streets on Tuesday in the latest flare-up of protests against President Robert Mugabe’s 36-year rule. Army trucks and tankers joined Harare’s regular municipal police in a drive against the hawkers, pursuing them through the streets of the capital […]
Violence in whatever form is unacceptable
Source: Heal Zimbabwe Heal Zimbabwe condemns in the strongest of terms the violence that took place today 27 September 2016 in the Central Business District of Harare. Earlier on, vendors had peacefully demonstrated against brutality by Council Municipal Police. But the demonstration was later hi- jacked by violent youth whose identity is yet to be […]
Suspected Zanu PF activists stone people, set vendors’ stalls on fire
Source: VOA Zimbabwe Original article URL Suspected Zanu PF activists go on the rampage in Harare stoning residents and destroying market stalls owned by vendors. The vendors reportedly hit back leading to the arrest of some of them. Vendors groups that had running battles with municipal police on Monday who attempted to evict them from […]
Agent provocateurs exposed during ‘protest’
Source: ZimRights Harare – As if to reignite fears that elements designated the term “third force” aligned to the ruling party Zanu-PF were behind the violent scenes during peaceful street protests by citizen social pressure groups, a vendors’ union has dissociated itself from the queer riots that erupted in the city late Tuesday morning, September […]
Suspected Zanu PF youths invade Harare’s Central Business District
Source: Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition Suspected Zanu PF youths have invaded Harare’s Central Business District destroying property and looting from shops.This is part of a ploy by the ruling party to use their youths to cause violence after which they will institute a series of arrests of civic society and opposition activists. The rogue youths […]
Third night in custody for those arrested at ZINASU meeting
Source: Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) On Monday 26 September 2016, Magistrate Poterai Gwezhira postponed the matter involving the 17 arrested at a ZINASU meeting to 27 September 2016. The 17, arrested on 24 September were attending a ZINASU council meeting at Forestry Industry Training Centre in Penhalonga. They are being charged with disorderly […]
Police ‘brutality’ shocks MDC-T activists as political violence grips Zimbabwe
Source: VOA Zimbabwe Original article URL Members of the Movement for Democratic Change led by former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai say they suffered in the hands of police and suspected Zanu PF activists, who detained and beat them up following a nationwide protests recently over lack of electoral reforms in Zimbabwe ahead of the 2018 […]
Zimbabwe High Court orders release of pro-democracy activist Linda Masarira
Source: VOA Zimbabwe Original article URL A High Court judge, David Mangota, has ordered the release of pro-democracy activist Linda Masarira, who was locked up at Chikurubi Maximum Prison for about three months. Masarira was arrested in July when Zimbabweans, who were protesting against the deteriorating social and economic situation in the country, took to […]
Spotlight on Masarira’s inordinate incarceration as High Court hears ZLHR’s challenge of arbitrary detention
Source: Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) HIGH Court Judge Justice David Mangota will on Monday 26 September 2016 preside over the hearing of an urgent chamber application filed by pro-democracy campaigner Linda Masarira challenging her inordinate incarceration. Masarira’s lawyers Andrew Makoni and Obey Shava, who are Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) members petitioned the […]
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