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Zimbabwe National Students Union Executive arrested
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
September 08, 2006

The Zimbabwe National Students Union Executive have been arrested.The arrested include the Vice President Gideon Chitanga,Secretary General Beloved Chiweshe and the Information and Publicity Secretary Lynnette Mudehwe.The students leaders were having a strategic workshop ahead of the ZCTU and the ZINASU mass protests that are on wednesday and thursday respectively.

The arrests come on the heels of massive threats by the ZANU PF Regime that they will crush any attemts to protest the current socio-economic and political hardships and the educational dillemma which ZANU PF have created.They are being charged with planning to carry out an unlawful protest.The charges are however spurrious ,concocted and devoid of any legal merit.The regime can not implement the innocent till proven guilty doctrine vice-versa unless they are covertly admitting that the rule of law has irreversibly broken down and replaced by rule by law.

The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights are assisting with legal issues.We would like to reiterate our commitment to embark on peaciful and lawful protests as planned.We remain resolute ,steadyfast and undeterred and our actions on the said date are going on as planned and unabated,we wish to inform ZANU PF that this is the same Union with the propensity to fight at a relentless capacity and that our students are infacted motivated by and geared for the arrests as a way to prove to the world that the regime has lost the last iota of adherenece to the rule of law .

We condenm the arrests in the most vehement of possible terms and would like to warn Government to start to be responsive to the sensibilities of the people before they are swept away by the Democratic storm. Our protests are not a secret and will not hide. THEY ARE GOING AHEAD AS PLANNED.

The people will conquer

Promise Mkwananzi
President

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