By A Correspondent| Pro-Democracy activist Makomborero Haruzivishe has told the story of how the four activists currently under police arrest, were taken into custody at the Robert Gabriel International Airport.

The four human rights campaigners namely George Makoni aged 38 years, Tatenda Mombeyarara aged 37 years, Gamuchirai Mukura aged 31 years and Nyasha Mpahlo aged 35 years were detained upon disembarking from a
plane at Robert Mugabe International Airport on Monday 20 May 2019 and held for several hours without communication with their lawyers after authorities confiscated their mobile phone handsets and laptops.

Haruzivishe tells of this story in the below interview. He says:

“The 4 in question arrested, were coming from South Africa from Oliver Tambo International Airport to Robert Mugabe Airport and when they arrived; when they were checking out of the airport when they were apprehended by detectives from the law and order they were then arrested and told that they were charged with subverting a constitutionally elected government.

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“They were then separated taken to separate police stations one of them, a police station in Mbare, the other ine in Braeside, the other one at Harare Central… and you know it is unfortunate that we have a state that feels citizens, four young men, four who don’t even have means to overthrow this and constitutional government it is unconstitutional in existence and in operation. They don’t have the means, that for it to be so paranoid, torturing them, traumatising them, to that extent and invading their privacy, their laptops have been taken they entered them even without even the consent of the accused in question, and even the trauma of being charged with subverting a constitutionally elected government, that is treasonous, a treasonous charge; the kind of trauma that they face, the cold they are spending the night without adequate clothing, and also the torture that they’re going through it is just so unnecessary.”

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