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Student
leader remanded in custody
Zimbabwe
National Students Union (ZINASU)
October 02, 2007
Masvingo
There was a shocking miscarriage of justice today as Masvingo magistrate
remanded in custody the secretary general of Great Zimbabwe University
( GZU) Edison Hlatshwayo on allegations of malicious injury to property
and assault. The magistrate refused bail due to the fact that the
state is still hunting for more students following disturbances
that rocked the University two weeks ago. He is to appear in court
again tomorrow. Other students on the wanted list includes Zwelithini
Viki, Gideon Chitanga who is the ZINASU
Vice President and Mehluli Dube who is also facing treason charges
after he was arrested by Gwanda Police on Saturday.
Hlatshwayo was arrested on Thursday last week while attending a
public meeting organized by the Youth Forum at Charles Austin theatre
hall in Masvingo. Zanu PF youth disrupted the meeting leading to
the arrest of 11 participants. The coordinator of Youth Forum Wellington
Zindove and the spokesperson of the National
Constitutional Assembly Madock Chivasa were also arrested and
appeared in court on allegations of undermining police authority
were released after paying ZW$10 million bail each. They are to
report at Avondale police station twice a week.
Hlatswayo becomes the seventeenth student to be remanded in custody
since 2006 after Beloved Chiweshe, the ZINASU Secretary General,
Marvellous Kumalo, the ZINASU programmes Officer and 14 other students
from Bindura University of Science Education were remanded in custody
on 13 May 2006 following a mass protest by students over the continued
fee hike in the country. Most of them had to spent two weeks at
the notorious Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare. Hlatswayo is being
represented by a legal defence team from the Zimbabwe
Lawyers of Human Rights (ZLHR). Meanwhile, Beloved Chiweshe
said that ZINASU will launch a massive Free Edson Campaign if he
is not released by tommorrow 12.00pm.
Visit the ZINASU
fact
sheet
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