By Own Correspondent- #ThisFlag Movement activist pastor Evan Mawarire revealed that there are hundreds of people most of whom are young people who are still in jail with wounds from beatings by security forces.

Mawarire was released from Chikurubi Maximum Prison on Wednesday evening, after being granted $2,000 bail on Tuesday.

He is being accused of treason and is on bail pending trial. He was arrested for calling on Zimbabweans to join the 14 – 16 January national #Shutdown Zimbabwe stayaway. 

Speaking to journalists soon after his release from Chikurubi Maximum Prison, Mawarire said President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is behaving like that of former leader Robert Mugabe.

Said Mawarire:

Once again we have to run and hide. It breaks my heart. I was locked up with over 300 young men whose limbs were broken after being beaten by soldiers and police. It is a tragedy, it is a shame. There are 16-year-olds who have been locked up.”