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Index of articles on enforced disappearances in Zimbabwe
ROHR
protests unlawful detention of human rights and political activists
Restoration of Human Rights (ROHR)
February 18, 2009
The images above
tell the tale of ROHR Zimbabwe members who today demonstrated their
anger in a protest against the unresolved crisis
of unjust arrests and detentions of human rights and political prisoners
in Chikurubi Maximum Prison and other places of detention.
The demonstration was also aimed at reminding the new political
establishment that the release of the prisoners of conscience
should be priority.
ROHR has not
been able to get confirmation of the number of arrests that resulted
from the action. We needed lawyers accompany
ROHR members to the Central Police Station to get the actual details
but coordination with lawyers was unsuccessful by
end of day today.
Close to fifty
of our members gathered at the Rotten Row Courts in Harare where
they heeded the call for protests, where the symbolic
act itself is a clear statement to the Inclusive government that
the detainees should be released unconditionally.
Although the
act was short, the message is clear and the morality of our call
for true justice to prevail over any form of political agenda is
legitimate. It is morally incorrect, that the inclusive Government
should continue as if it is business as usual when obviously the
skeletons of the previous regime have not yet been buried.
ROHR Zimbabwe
Harare field officer addressed the public. He pointed out that the
action should be a clear message for the new Cabinet that convened
for the first time on Monday 17 February that the suffering of the
detainees is central to the people's heart and should be one
of the priorities that need urgent attention if the positive hype
of the inclusive Government is to be sustained.
As ROHR Zimbabwe
we reiterate that all human rights and political detainees must
be released immediately. We condemn the arrest of Roy Bennett and
the 10 WOZA
activists who are being denied lawyer access. This kind of orchestration
on civilians transmits wrong
signals to the world about Zimbabwe's that cast doubt upon
Zimbabwe's capacity and readiness to practically handle the
current
human rights and economic challenges of today.
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