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Operation
Sunrise demonstrators to face trial
Women
of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA)
November 06, 2006
One hundred and fifty-two members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA)
are to face trial in Bulawayo tomorrow at the Bulawayo Magistrates
Court at 8.30am. They are charged under Chapter 37 of the Criminal
Law (Codification and Reform) Act - 'participating in a public
gathering with the intent to cause public disorder, breach of peace
or bigotry'.
If convicted,
the members could receive up to five years in custody or face a
heavy fine. They were arrested on 21 August in Bulawayo while protesting
against Operation
Sunrise (the slashing of zeroes).
Riot police arrested
WOZA members as they were marching towards the RBZ offices where
they intended to hand over an open letter to Gideon Gono. The peaceful
protest started at 11am at the Post Office in Main Street. As the
procession turned into Leopold Takawira St, to go to the Reserve
Bank, police appeared and stopped the march, arresting the members.
Over 20 members, many of them minors were subjected to different
forms of torture whilst in the offices of the Law and Order Department.
They were made to sit on 'air chairs' and beaten under their feet.
Visit
the WOZA fact
sheet
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