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ZINASU President and seven others appear in court
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) (Chinyere)
April 14, 2010

The ZINASU President Joshua Chinyere and 7 other students who were arrested on 29 March 2010 during the demonstration organized by ZINASU appeared in court at Rotten Row Magistrate Court today for the routine remand hearing where they were further remanded to 12 May 2010.

Cde Chinyere was also suspended from college by the overzealous UZ Vice Chancellor, Professor Levy Nyagura together with the Spokesperson, Wisdom Mgagara. The two leaders have filed an Urgent High Court Chamber application today to be allowed to write their examinations since their case has not yet been heard by the UZ Disciplinary Committee. Barring them from sitting for their examinations before they go for a disciplinary hearing is a violation of the students' right to education and ZINASU hopes the Court will reverse the outrageous decision made by Nyagura.

Cases of student victimizations have been rampant with 8 students suspended for taking part in protests in 2010 alone. ZINASU condemns the college authorities' continued disrespect of students' rights to freedom of association, movement and speech. This has made it difficult for students to assemble and ventilate their grievances over the way the education sector has deteriorated. The students will not be deterred by the iron rule of the authorities and state agents and are planning to continue staging more and more demonstrations until normalcy prevails in the education fraternity.

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