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Police
arrest Muchadehama in fresh crackdown against lawyers
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)
May 14, 2009
Zimbabwe Lawyers for
Human Rights (ZLHR) is distressed by the arrest on Thursday 14 May
2009 of prominent human rights lawyer, Alec Muchadehama, who has
been representing several Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) members
and human rights activists, charged with plotting to unseat President
Robert Mugabe.
Muchadehama was arrested
by one Murimbo and Piwa from Harare Central Police Station's
Law and Order Section, during the discharge of his duties at the
Rotten Row Magistrates Courts in Harare on Thursday morning, where
he was to attend to four court cases.
The charges that the
police are preferring on Muchadehama were not clear at the time
of releasing this update.
However, last week ZLHR
released an alert exposing a plot involving the Attorney General's
(AG) Office and some police officers in planning to arrest Muchadehama
for allegedly facilitating "the improper release" of
three political detainees, Andrison Manyere from Chikurubi Maximum
Prison and Gandhi Mudzingwa, Kisimusi Dhlamini under hospital detention
at the Avenues Clinic on 17 April 2009.
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