11-08-2020

Reports from Masvingo Remand Prison indicate that jailed MDC Alliance Youth Organizer Clr Godfrey Kurauone is in a very unstable health condition.

Our Organizer is being denied access to proper medication and healthy food in contravention of the Prisons Act.

Clr Kurauone was arrested by the police when he went to report as per his bail conditions.

He is part of the long list of individuals whom the police say are wanted for ‘interviews’ in connection with 31 July protests against looting and corruption.

Kurauone was denied bail at Masvingo Magistrates Courts and his bail hearing appeal is set for tomorrow at Masvingo High Court.

It is very clear that Kurauone is a target of persecution by the state because he refused to yield to Emmerson Mnangagwa’s call for command fasting and went on a campaign to feed the underprivileged.

Just like Ian Smith regime, ED’s government now uses detention as a tool to silence critics as we have witnessed in the case of Hopewell Chin’ono and Jacob Ngarivhume who are also languishing at Chikurubi Maximum Prison for speaking out against corruption.

We want to make it clear that we are not going to be cowed into submission but will continue to raise our voices against societal ills like corruption.

We shall never relent!

*#ZimbabweanLivesMatters!*

*#KushingaMberi!*

Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
_MDC_ _Alliance_ _Youth_ _Assembly_ _National_ _Spokesperson_