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ZCTU National Labour Protest - Sept 13, 2006 - Index of articles
ZCTU
activists appear in court
Zimbabwe
Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)
October 03, 2006
A Harare magistrate
today postponed the trial of 31 ZCTU activists to 17 October 2006.
The activists were arrested on 13 September 2006 for taking part
in the ZCTU organised
mass action.
The postponment was at the request of the ZCTU lawyer who said those
injured were not yet fit to stand trial while others are still in
pain and recuperating.
The magistrate
also cancelled the initial ruling that those who were arrested report
to the police every Friday.
Significantly,
the magistrate ordered a fresh investigation, by the Criminal Investigation
Department (CID), into the brutal beatings and torture that took
place at Matapi Police Station.
This was after
the police produced narrative reports on what transpired instead
of an investigation report. The police claimed that the ZCTU leadership
were injured after they tried to jump out of the police truck and
also that they used 'minimum' force after they resisted getting
into cells. The police also claimed that their vehicles were damaged.
The magistrate noted that it was absurd for the policemen, who are
alleged to have beaten the ZCTU leadership to investigate themselves.
He ordered a different section of the police, the CID, to conduct
the investigation.
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