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ZCTU National Labour Protest - Sept 13, 2006 - Index of articles
Zimbabwe
police beat and arrest journalist covering demo
Violet Gonda, SW Radio Africa
September 14, 2006
http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=15134
A Reuters cameraman
Mike Sabure was beaten and arrested in Harare while covering the
protest
marches organised by the Zimbabwe
Congress of Trade Unions, Wednesday.
Freelance journalist
Gift Phiri told us Sabure was filming the police beating people
when police officers wielding metre long baton sticks started beating
him up. Phiri said the Reuters cameraman tried to show them his
accreditation card but they kept assaulting him and bundled him
into the police Defender truck. He was arrested at the same time
as civic leader Raymond Majongwe from the Progressive
Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, Grace Kwinjeh from the Tsvangirai
MDC and several others. The group is being held together with the
Women of Zimbabwe
Arise (WOZA) activists arrested on Monday.
The 107
WOZA women were arrested whilst trying to protest at Town House
at the shocking service delivery experienced in the capital. One
of the women arrested was rushed to Parirenyatwa hospital Tuesday
to give birth after she went into labour in police custody. Six
more WOZA were arrested alongside ZCTU protesters in Bulawayo on
Wednesday.
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