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Police
arrest teachers in Karoi
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)
August 02, 2010
Police in Karoi on Thursday
29 July 2010 arrested three teachers and a security guard for allegedly
assaulting a Karoi resident.
The teachers namely Rorden
Matsaure aged 32, Innocent Nyoni (34), Clifford Muchingami (30)
and Patrick Murira (39), a security guard appeared in court on Monday
2 August, 2010 for initial remand.
The State alleges
that the teachers who are stationed at Hesketh Primary School in
Karoi contravened section 89 of the Criminal
Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 when they teamed
up to assault Freeman Svova on 29 July 2010 around 21:30 hrs.
The State stated that
the three teachers unlawfully and intentionally caused bodily harm
to Svova when they assaulted him once on the forehead, using a brick,
once at the back using a gumtree branch and all over the body using
booted foot, clenched palms (sic), and open hands thereby causing
inflicting injuries.
The State claims that
the teachers assaulted Svova after he alleged during a discussion
whilst drinking beer in a bar that they were spoiling school children
by teaching them some Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) slogans
at school and they had ended up singing some of the party's
songs and slogans at home.
As a result of the alleged
assault the State claims that Svova sustained some injuries on the
head, wounds on his face, back ache, chest pains and a swollen eye.
However, the teachers
have denied the assault charges and claim that they were being victimized
for challenging some soldiers at a meeting convened on 27 July,
2010 near the school, where the soldiers were allegedly coaching
people on making contributions during a meeting held ahead of a
constitutional outreach meeting to solicit people's contributions
to a draft constitution.
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