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Police quiz two as they suppress ZLHR meeting
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)
March 09, 2011

Police in Chinhoyi on Wednesday 9 March 2011 detained and quizzed two employees of Youth Dialogue Action Network and suppressed a meeting organized by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) on human rights and constitutionalism.

Police detained Owen Dhliwayo, the board chairperson of Youth Dialogue Action Network and Catherine Mukwapati, the organisation's coordinator, who had partnered ZLHR in organising a training on human rights and constitutionalism for human rights defenders in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West province.

Dhliwayo and Mukwapati were taken by the police from a church building at United Church of Christ (UCCZ), where the training was underway and detained at Chemagamba police station for four hours.

About 60 human rights defenders from various organisations had attended the meeting which was disrupted by the police, two hours into the meeting.

The police, who detained Dhliwayo and Mukwapati from 10:00 am to 14:00 pm took note of their identity numbers and residential addresses and advised them that they were going to make a follow up with them for allegedly organizing the meeting in Chinhoyi.

The police were reportedly interested in "quizzing" Tineyi Mukweva, a programmes assistant of ZLHR.

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