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Eight
University of Zimbabwe students further remanded
Students Solidarity Trust
July 07, 2010
Eight University
of Zimbabwe student activists today appeared before Harare magistrate
on charges of participating in an illegal gathering after a ZINASU
demonstration in March .The state have promised to give them a trial
date on the 4th of August when they appear for routine remand hearing.
The students who have been on remand since March when they were
arrested at Parliament Building demonstrating against the abuse
of human rights in the country. Those who appeared in court are
Joshua Chinyere, James Katso, Temptation Tazviinga, Tinashe Hlatshwayo,
Tinashe Chisaira, Culvern Mungiri, Sydney Chisuko and Chikomborero
Mukwaturi.
The Students Solidarity
Trust is worried with the continued harassment of student activists
when they enjoy academic freedoms in their institutions of higher
learning. The banning of public gatherings at the University of
Zimbabwe campus by Professor Levy Nyagura is a direct blow to the
tenants of academic freedom in the country. The Students Solidarity
demands education to be enshrined as a constitutional right. It
should be the duty of the state to educate its children regardless
of their social status.
It is imperative
that at a time when the constitution outreach teams are soliciting
views for a new
constitution, Zimbabweans must demand a free society that does
not tolerate victimisation of students. The rule of law must be
respected and the legal system must be independent, not hindered
by politics in order to ensure effective and much needed justice
delivery system. Students should not be denied the right to education.
The system needs to ensure safety to its citizens such that students
can demand accountability from those entrusted with the mandate
to safe guard the educational sector.
Visit the Students
Solidarity Trust fact
sheet
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