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Index of articles on enforced disappearances in Zimbabwe
ZimInd
editors report to Police Law and Order section
MISA-Zimbabwe
May 11, 2009
Zimbabwe Independent
editors' Vincent Kahiya and Constantine Chimakure on 11 May
2009 reported to the Zimbabwe Republic Police' Law and Order
Section, where they have spent almost the whole day. The two are
accompanied by their lawyer Innocent Chagonda.
At the time of writing
this alert, MISA-Zimbabwe was unable to establish an update from
telephone conversations with both Kahiya and Chagonda who said that
they were still at the police station and would be in touch as soon
as they were able to. They reported to the police station at around
10am this morning.
Background
On Saturday 9 May, 2009
officials from the Law and Order Section visited the Zimbabwe Independent
offices looking for Kahiya and Chimakure over a story published
in this weeks edition 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.
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.
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