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ZINASU General Councilor arrested, barred from writing examinations
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
December 01, 2008

ZINASU General Councillor and School of Mines Students Union President Archieford Mudzengi was on Friday 28 November 2008 dragged from his exam room by 4 CID Law and Order officers and detained at Bulawayo Central Police Station. The arrest comes after the student leader failed to appear in court on Thursday 24 November as he was writing his end of year examinations. Mudzengi was arrested on the 11th of November during an NCA/ZINASU demonstration.

We demand his immediate release as he is supposed to be sitting for his exams today and the rest of the week. In 2005 the former ZINASU President Promise Mkwananzi was arrested in the exam room at the University of Zimbabwe. We condemn the continued violations of our academic freedoms by the Mugabe regime and the arrest clearly shows that we are dealing with an insensitive regime. Arrests and harassment of student leaders has been on the increase for the past 10 years and this year alone ZINASU has recorded over 350 unlawful arrests of students. This number is greater than the number of students arrested and detained by all apartheid regimes in Rhodesia.

ZINASU is engaged with Parliament and grassroots mobilisation in order to campaign for a new people driven constitution that will guarantee education as a basic right and prevent arbitrary arrests by state security forces.

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