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Raid
on Zimbabwe Election Support Network offices
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)
April 25, 2008
Zimbabwe Lawyers
for Human Rights (ZLHR) informs of a raid of the Zimbabwe
Election Support Network (ZESN) offices by members of the Zimbabwe
Republic Police, lead by Chief Superintendent Makedenge.
This morning at around
11am, ZESN's offices in Belgravia Harare, were raided by armed
police officers. The police officers also raided the home of Rindai
Chipfunde-Vava, Director of ZESN. The officers were armed with a
similar search warrant in both instances which entitled them to
search for 'subversive' materials including desktop
computers, laptop computers containing such.
The offences
police are pointing out relate to a violation of section 22(2)(b)
of Zimbabwe's Criminal
Law (Codification and Reform) Act. These provisions criminalise
supporting or assisting any group to overthrow or attempt to overthrow
the government by unconstitutional means or usurp the functions
of government or to coerce or attempt to coerce the government.
The police were keen
to arrest Rindai Chipfunde-Vava, ZESN Director and the board members,
including ZESN chairperson, human rights lawyer Noel Kututwa and
Irene Petras, Executive Director ZLHR.
ZLHR lawyers were deployed
to attend to all the cases and will provide further information
as inventories of materials and office equipments seized are currently
been taken.
Visit the ZLHR
fact
sheet
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