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Strikes and Protests 2007/8 - Students
ZINASU
President and others arrested
Zimbabwe
National Students Union (ZINASU)
March 13, 2007
The arrest of student
leaders is continuing two days after the planned prayer meeting
pencilled for the famous Zimbabwe Grounds on Sunday 11 March 2007.
The meeting was barred by heavily armed police. Following the barring
of this meeting, the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) Information
and Publicity Secretary, Lynnett Mudehwe was arrested together with
other pro-democracy activists in Highfields, Harare.
26 students
from Seke Teachers College, led by a ZINASU general council member,
Mehluli Dube who is the Student Representative Council (SRC) vice
president of National
University of Science and Technology (NUST) were arrested near
Makoni Shopping Centre in Chitungwiza on their way to the Zimbabwe
Grounds for the prayer meeting. They were held for the whole day
and later on released at around 1800hrs without any charges. We
believe this was an attempt by police to frustrate the attendance
at the prayer meeting.
Gideon Chitanga, the
ZINASU vice president together with 4 other students were picked
up at Masvingo Polytechnic College on Monday 12 March 2007. The
student leaders in Masvingo were mobilising against the unwarranted
arrests, torture and murder of human rights defenders.
Today at around
1000hrs the ZINASU president, Promise Mkwananzi and secretary general
Beloved Chiweshe were arrested at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)
while rallying students to march into the city centre to demand
a pronto release of opposition, civic society and student leaders.
4 other student leaders and activists are in police custody in Harare.
This brings the total number of students in police detention to
37.
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