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Solidarity message with the Counselling Services Unit
Solidarity Peace Trust
November 08, 2012

Solidarity Peace Trust joins other civic groups in Zimbabwe in protesting against the illegal and unjust harassment and arrest of the staff of the Counselling Services Unit (CSU). The continued detention of Fidelis Mudimu, Zachariah Godi, and Tafadzwa Geza is only the latest example of the ongoing repression against civil society activists and is a grim reminder of the arbitrary manner in which the repressive arms of the Zimbabwean state continue to be deployed.

We demand the strict application of the rule of law in the treatment of the arrested CSU employees and call on the Inclusive Government and the SADC facilitation team to bring an end to such arbitrary arrests and intimidation. As Zimbabwe prepares for a new election in 2013 under the terms of the GPA, the increasing indicators of state repression on the political landscape provide little reassurance that the country will avoid the debacle of 2008.

We call on the democratic forces inside Zimbabwe, SADC, the AU and other forces in the international community, to urgently develop a consensus on the way forward in Zimbabwe and to ensure that those elements bent on thwarting the democratic electoral will of Zimbabwean citizens are left in no doubt that they will be isolated in their obstructive politics.

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