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Student harassment continues
Students Solidarity Trust
May 15, 2007

Harare continues to experience a harassment of students as law enforcement agents continue brutalizing students.

Two students who were arrested and beaten by the police and the green bombers at the University are still in police custody at the Harare Central Police station. Munyaradzi Chikorohondo and Prosper Munatsi, the secretary general of the Student Christian Movement chapter at the University of Zimbabwe who were arrested for addressing fellow students saw their plea for freedom thwarted today after police refused to release them although the prosecutor had refused to prosecute on grounds that the issue was an internal University matter.

In a rare and bizarre turn of events Zimbabwe may witness students attending hearings from the cells.

However, a High Court ruling has instructed the police to return the students to court or release them within the next 24 hours.

It is reported that the University of Zimbabwe where no lectures have taken place for the whole of this semester is heavily guarded and student leaders are being hunted down and harassed at every opportunity.

In a separate incident, two students were arrested for allegedly assaulting a police detail. Colin Chibango and Wellington Mahohoma the president and treasurer of the Zimbabwe Youth Movement respectively were detained in the city centre for questioning police who were harassing venders.

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