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Student
leader laments in cells, two weeks on
Zimbabwe
National Students Union (ZINASU)
October 09, 2007
Police in Masvingo are
still holding Great Zimbabwe University GZU) Secretary General,
Edwin Hlatswayo at the Masvingo Remand Prison. Hlatshwayo was arrested
on Thursday two 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 10 million bail each. They
are to report at Avondale police station twice a week. He is been
charged with malicious injury to property and
assault.
However, ZINASU has petitioned the Attorney General's office to
intervene since the student formation strongly believes that Edison
is only a victim of ZANU PF political machinations to silence all
democracy activists ahead of the March 2008 General Election.
Visit the ZINASU
fact
sheet
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