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Index of articles on enforced disappearances in Zimbabwe
Police
visit The Independent over published story
MISA-Zimbabwe
May 11, 2009
Officials from the Law
and Order Section on Saturday 9 May, 2009 visited the Zimbabwe Independent
offices looking for Editor, Vincent Kahiya and News Editor, Constantine
Chimakure over a story naming members of the Central Intelligence
Organisation and police who were allegedly involved in the abductions
of human rights and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) activists
amongst them freelance journalist Shadreck Andrisson Manyere last
year.
The story titled, CIO,
police role in activists' abduction revealed, states that
notices of indictment for trial in the High Court which begins 29
June 2009, served on some of the activists last week revealed that
the activists were either in the custody of the CIO or police during
the period they were reported missing. Amongst those named are CIO
Assistant Director External, retired brigadier Asher Walter Tapfumaneyi,
Police Superintendents, Reggies Chikwete and Joel Tendere, Detective
Inspectors, Elliot Muchada and Joshua Muzangano, CID Homicide Officer
Commanding, Crispen Kadenge, Chief Superintendent Peter Magwenzi
and Senior Assistant Commissioner, Simon Nyathi.
When the officials from
the police visited the office of the Zimbabwe Independent on Saturday,
both Kahiya and Chimakure were not at the offices. They spoke to
Chief Executive Officer, Raphael Khumalo and asked that the two
report to their offices as soon as they were available.
MISA-Zimbabwe spoke to
the Editor, Vincent Kahiya who said that the official visited the
Zimbabwe Independent offices again this morning, and left a note
for them to report to their offices. He said that they would be
reporting to the Law and Order Section this morning with as their
lawyer Innocent Chagonda.
Background
Manyere and
the other activists are charged under section 23 (1), (2) of the
Criminal Law
(Codification and Reform) Act which criminalises acts of insurgence,
banditry, sabotage or terrorism or alternatively Section 143 of
the same Act which relates to aggravating circumstances in relation
to malicious damage to property.
Manyere went
missing on 3 December 2008, and only appeared on 24 December 2008,
together with former news reader with the Zimbabwe Broadcasting
Corporation (ZBC) and director of the Zimbabwe
Peace Project, Jestina Mukoko.
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