Farai Dziva|MDC Alliance members Fadzayi Mahere (National Spokesperson), three Youth Assembly officials Joana Mamombe, Netsai Marova and Cecilia Chimbiri have been arrested as Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration intensifies efforts to silence dissenting voices.

Prominent writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga was also arrested.

MDC deputy president Tendai Biti condemned the persecution of citizens by the paranoid regime :

“The #amoeba has totally lost it . Indeed Fadzai , Tsitsi and others have been arrested .

So too the #MDCAllianceTrio & their lawyer Obey Shava who were all coming from a hastily arranged trial at the Harare Magistrate Court .Civil rights have now securely been quarantined in Zim.

It appears that the desperate regime is now arresting citizens wily nilyThey appear to have picked up Tsitsi Dangarembgwa,our spokesperson

@advocatemahere andothers .

The right to peacefully demonstrate is is codified in our constitution,” Biti wrote on Twitter.