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Five ZimRights personnel arrested in Karoi
Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights)
June 26, 2012

Police in Karoi yesterday arrested and briefly detained five Zimbabwe Human Rights Association employees for allegedly contravening some sections of the usually abused Public Order and Security Act (POSA).

The five were David Palasida, Nancy Madzivire, Rutendo Tsvangirayi, July Chimutsanya and Reverend Issac Chamonyonga. Contrary to the claims that they convened a meeting without notifying the police - hence contravening some provisions of Section 24 of POSA (Chapter 11:17), the five were implementing legal clinics. Legal clinics by their nature are not in any way closer to a meeting for they are done on a one on one basis. No gathering had the five called for or even addressed. The five were released in the late hours of the day. Thanks to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) that swiftly attended to the matter.

We in strongest terms condemn such continued misinterpretations of the law. We have had enough of such interruptions to our work and in all similar previous cases; the state has been found at the losing end. We believe that these were just efforts to frustrate the work that we do.

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