ZimEye.com brings our valued readers updates from the Promise Mkwananzi court case in which the activist is being tried for committing public violence.
1605 – Mkwananzi loses case:
1. The application challenging his placement on remand dismissed. The court ruled that the threshold for the placement on remand is very low and that the mere assertion by the police that he connived with Tajamuka to burn a police car and a ZBC car were adequate to have him placed on remand. This is notwithstanding the defence on his warned and cautioned statement that he was at a conference hosted by SAPES Trust on the day in question.
3. Let’s not forget the 70 protestors from yesterday who were charged and have been arraigned before the courts. It’s quite sad that those who called for yesterday’s demonstration showed no solidarity with these men and women. Included in this group is a pregnant woman, an old lady above 70 and an old man above 70. Many were limping into court and had not eaten since yesterday.
1355 – Court Room 6 (where Mkhwananzi is being tried) is packed to the full.
1300 – Commentary by Ralph Mguni
0845 – Pro-democracy campaigner Promise Mkwananzi, who is represented by ZLHR lawyers is now being taken to appear at Harare Magistrates Court following his arrest on Friday for allegedly committing/inciting public violence.
0700 – HRDs Alert
27 August 2016
PROTEST AFTERMATH-STATE SECURITY AGENTS, POLICE CLAMPDOWN ON POLITICAL AND PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS
HUMAN rights lawyers on Friday 26 August 2016 endured a hectic day as they mounted searches for several political and human rights activists, who were reported missing after they were picked up by some state security agents and police officers in a retributive exercise following the suppression of anti-government protests.
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) deployed its members across some police stations located in Harare in search of human rights campaigner Gift Ostallos Siziba, who was seized and bundled into a vehicle in central Harare during a High Court sanctioned protest to demand substantive electoral reforms.
Siziba was later located at Harare Central Police Station, where ZLHR lawyers also discovered that Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers had rounded up several political and human rights activists including a pregnant women.
ZLHR lawyers are also still searching for freelance photo-journalist James Jemwa, who is reported to have been seized while covering the Friday protest, which was blocked by ZRP officers who dispersed protesters and fired teargas canisters.
In Harare’s Glenview high-density suburb, some unidentified armed men raided the home of Kerina Dewah, a 61 year-old women, who serves as the Vice Chairperson for the MDC-T party’s Harare province and seized her under some unexplained motives. ZLHR lawyers are working towards ascertaining her whereabouts.
ZRP officers also quizzed pro-democracy campaigner Sten Zvorwadza before releasing him without pressing a charge against him over his role in organisng Wednesday’s anti-government protests in which protesters demonstrated against rising incidents of police brutality.
On Saturday 27 August 2016, another pro-democracy campaigner Promise Mkwananzi is expected to appear at Harare Magistrates Court following his arrest on Friday 26 August 2016 for allegedly inciting and committing public violence.
Meanwhile, Harare Magistrate Tendai Mahwe on Friday 26 August 2016 postponed to Monday 29 August 2016, hearing of the matter involving 13 men, who were arrested on Thursday 25 August 2016 and charged with committing public violence during Wednesday’s protest against police brutality.
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Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights
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