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Update
on recent arrests
Crisis
in Zimbabwe Coalition
May 09, 2008
ZCTU
leaders still detained . . . .
The Zimbabwe Congress
of Trade Union (ZCTU) President and Secretary General Lovemore
Matombo and Wellington Chibebe who were arrested on Tuesday the
7th of May 2008 are still detained at the Harare Central Police
Station. Chibebe and Matombo are accused of inciting public violence
during the May Day celebrations held at Dzivarasekwa Stadium on
the 1st of May 2008. Their lawyer Alec Muchadehama informed the
Coalition team in an interview that he was battling with the police
to get the two to court this afternoon
MDC
activists granted bail . . .
The
22 MDC activists arrested last month were today granted bail by
the Harare Magistrates Court. However, the state has made an appeal
against them in the High Court under the Section 121 of the Law
and Order with the exception of Edith Mpofu and Agripa Mtasa.
Harrison
Nkomo released . . . .
Harrison
Nkomo from the Zimbabwe
Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) was today released from police
custody. He was released on a 5 billion bail.
ZESN
Election observers attacked . . .
Five accredited ZESN
observers were three days ago attacked at their homes. Three of
the cases occurred at Logan Farm about 10km from Shamva where known
ZANU PF supporters, particularly war veterans had been threatening
to evict and burn down resettled farmers that observed the election.
It is reported that on the 5th of May 2008 war veterans and ZANU
PF supporters descended on the homes of 4 supervisors and tortured
them, burnt their huts and destroyed their food reserves and furniture
in broad daylight.
In Wadzanai, a residential
area in Shamva, the home of another ZESN observer was extensively
damaged and property destroyed when a gang of ZANU PF youth went
on a rampage attacking suspected MDC sympathisers on the eve of
the 7th of May 2008.
The perpetrators have
gone as far as confiscating the observers' accreditation cards,
t-shirts and other identification particulars in Mutoko and Mudzi
North area. The perpetrators who include war veterans, ZANU PF youth
militias and traditional leaders like the headman Chingwena of Mudzi
North are also restricting movement of citizens in the area and
asking people to report to their torture camps.
The victims are accused
of conniving with the MDC to allegedly rig the presidential election
held on 29 March 2008.
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