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Overzealous
police dump WOZA members at cemetery, judge grants bail to MDC youth
leader as magistrate defers Mangoma trial
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)
November 13, 2012
Police in Bulawayo
on Tuesday 13 November 2012 arrested 23 WOZA
members and dumped some of them at a cemetery, a day after detaining
79 members, who were demonstrating against perennial water shortages.
The WOZA members
were rounded up by the police as they staged protests against chronic
water shortages in the country's second largest city.
Senior police
officers at Bulawayo Central Police Station reportedly refused to
detain the WOZA members and informed the overzealous arresting police
officers to return the protestors to where they had picked them
up from.
Some of the
protesting members were later dumped at West Park Cemetery, just
outside the city centre along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway
after human rights lawyers Nikiwe Ncube and Lizwe Jamela of Zimbabwe
Lawyers for Human Rights had given chase to the police officers
who had indicated their desire to dump the women in a bush after
their plan was foiled.
In Harare, High
Court Judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu on Tuesday 13 November 2012
granted $500 bail each to two MDC youth leaders Solomom Madzore
and Lovemore Taruvinga alias Magaya. The two were ordered to surrender
their travel documents and to reside at their given residential
addresses until the matter is finalised. The release of Madzore
and Taruvinga follows the discharge of human rights campaigner,
Cynthia Manjoro who became the first detainee to be granted
bail in October out
of the 29 detainees since their detention late last year.
In Bindura,
Magistrate Felix Mawadze deferred the trial of Energy and Power
Development Minister Hon. Elton Mangoma to 12 December 2012 after
he had been summonsed to stand trial on charges of undermining the
authority of or insulting President Robert Mugabe. The trial was
deferred to allow the Area Public Prosecutor Emmanuel Muchenga to
serve the State papers including the State outline and the witness
statements to Hon. Mangoma's lawyer Selby Hwacha so that he
can adequately prepare for trial.
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