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Upsurge in student victimsation
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
September 21, 2010

The University of Zimbabwe campus security personnel on Friday the 17th of September 2010 ruthlessly assaulted Pride Mukono a second year student for allegedly undermining the office and authority of the President. Mukono was mobilizing students in signing a petition against the system of semesterized student identity cards and on issues pertaining to the ongoing constitution-making process.

ZINASU is reliably informed that the student leader was urging students to attend the outreach meetings which were scheduled for the weekend. Mukono encouraged students to speak against the issue of the President being the Chancellor of all state universities and these sentiments provided an excuse for the unschooled campus security personnel to effect arrest of the resilient student leader.

The ZINASU National Spokesperson Grant Tabvurei in the company of Stuart Mwale the UZ SRA Secretary General visited the student leader yesterday at Harare Central Police Station. The student leader is complaining of being assaulted by the campus security personnel and the investigating officer being reluctant in ensuring that the case be ready for trial.

The student leader was taken yesterday around 2pm from the Harare Central Police Station to UZ for investigations and later on to Mbare for unspecified reasons. The student leader had not got legal representation by close of day yesterday despite the frantic efforts to get one by Tabvurei and Mwale. Mukono is expected to appear before a Harare magistrates court today in the late afternoon that is if the investigating officer has finalised the docket.

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