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ZINASU President Tafadzwa "Tu-boy" Mugwadi arrested
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) (Mugwadi)
March 28, 2010

Tafadzwa "Tu-boy" Mugwadi arrested

The Zimbabwe National Students Union [ZINASU] President Tafadzwa "Tu-boy" Mugwadi was arrested yesterday the 29th of March 2010 at Harare Polytechnic College together with the ZINASU Education and Research secretary Bastinos Kundishora and University of Zimbabwe student leader Alias Chitombo .The three were arrested for being suspected of having distributed the ZINASU-Weekly and are being held at Harare Central Police station.

President Mugwadi and his delegation had gone to Harare Polytechnic College to meet students from various polytechnic colleges who had gathered for their annual Tertiary Education Sporting Association (TESA) games which were being held at Harare Polytechnic College.

Earlier during the day President Mugwadi had been confronted by three men who claimed to be state security agents and threatened him with unspecified action for publishing the ZINASU Weekly and distributing it at Harare Polytechnic College an institution they claimed was a no go area for ZINASU.

ZINASU decries the arrest as an attempt to intimidate and cow the student leaders and all dissenting voices by the corrupt Harare Polytechnic College administration with the misplaced hope of covering its corrupt practices.
In the interest of academic freedom and democracy, ZINASU demands the immediate release of President Mugwadi and his colleagues. We call upon all pro-democratic Zimbabweans to insist on the release of the student activists and to pressure the Zimbabwe government to guarantee that the detained will not be tortured.
The revolution is under trial we however remain firm and resolute in defending the rights of students!

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