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Crisis
in Zimbabwe Coalition
October 05, 2011
ZANU-PF and its appendages continue to commit acts of violence with
impunity while political and human activists are arrested arbitrarily
by police force that is partisan and unprofessional. Reports of
systematic violations of human rights in Zimbabwe keep on escalating
as ZANU PF oils its terror machinery as a way of intimidating potential
voters in the forthcoming elections. ZANU-PF's dominant control
and manipulation of political processes through trumped-up charges,
arbitrary arrests, intimidation, and corruption has effectively
deprived citizens of their right to choose a government of their
own. On the 4th of October 2011, the police armed with AK47 rifles
and teargas stormed the house of Solomon Madzore, Youth Assembly
chairperson for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and arrested
him. The police are accusing him for having allegedly murdered police
Inspector Petros Mutedza in Glenview with 26 other Glenview residents.
The arrest of
Madzore brings to 27 the total number of Glenview residents and
MDC members who were arrested on the 29th of May 2011 and charged
in connection
with the murder of Inspector Mutedza. Eight Glenview residents
have since been detained in prison after High Court Judge Justice
Tendai Uchena dismissed their bail applications while the rest were
released on bail. The remaining detainees were remanded in custody
to 19 October 2011. In as much as the Zimbabwe constitution provides
for the right to a fair trial, this right has been frequently ignored
and while defendants ought to enjoy a presumption of innocence under
the law, this has also been disrespected in practice. The Coalition
demands that the judicial system be unbiased, professional and no-partisan
in the execution of its duties.
Meanwhile WOZA
leaders, Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu were yesterday Tuesday
4 October 2011 freed
on bail after 13 days of detention since their arrest on 21 September
on charges of theft and kidnapping. The two were incarcerated at
the Mlondolozi Prison while 10 other WOZA members who were arrested
together with Williams and Mahlangu and charged with criminal nuisance
were freed on Thursday 22 September 2011. Justice Cheda, who preside
over the WOZA leaders' bail hearing, ordered Williams and
Mahlangu to deposit $200 each as bail.
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