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NCA
members arrested again!
Zimbabwe
Peace Project
July 14,
2006
As government
continues to deny people freedom of expression, about one hundred
and twenty National Constitutional Assembly members were arrested
in Harare yesterday 12th July 2006 during a peaceful
demonstration. They were about thirty-six males and eight-four females
who demonstrated demanding a new constitution.
The march started
at 13:00hours at corner Rezende Street and Nelson Mandela Avenue
Harare. The demonstrators were waving placards and singing songs
about the new constitution and marched through Nelson Mandela Avenue.
They briefly stopped
at parliament building before they proceeded to Fourth Street with
the intention of returning to the parliament building. This was
not to be as before proceeding back to parliament building about
five riot police arrived and ordered the demonstrators to sit down
at Quality International Hotel. As they were sitting down about
six uniformed police, three plain clothes policemen, and four others
believed to be Central Intelligence Office (CIO) members reinforced
the riot police. Within a few minutes four police vehicles (two
defenders and two mazda pick-up trucks) arrived and ferried demonstrators
to Harare Central Police Station.
By 14:00 hours
all the demonstrators had been taken to police station. Their fate
after arrest remains unclear at the time of reporting. The space
for civic involvement continues to shrink as any attempt to organize
around issues of national concern such as the constitution is thwarted
by the state using brute force
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