Tinashe Sambiri|The Zanu PF leader, Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa is under relentless pressure to release jailed political activists.
The MDC Alliance has vowed to push the regime to release jailed political and human rights activists.
The vibrant movement also appealed to international human rights organizations to act on the crisis in Zimbabwe.
See statement below:
The arrest of Jacob Ngarivhume constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of political liberty to Social Transformers , Mdc Alliance Namibia fumes!
06 April 2021
Mdc Alliance Namibia appeals to The African Charter on Human and People’s Rights , 1981, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 and The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ,1966 to intervene in Zimbabwe as way of defending human freedoms and security.
Mdc Alliance deputy Chairperson Hon Job SaroWiwa Sikhala confirmed the arbitrary arrest of Transform Zimbabwe and founder of the July Movement, Jacob Ngarivhume.
Regardless of his notification to carry out a clean-up exercise in one of Harare’s old high density suburb of Mbare. The captured law enforcement agents turned his application down but Ngarivhume defied the notice and proceeded to pick up litter at Mbare Msika.
In barring him, the Zanupf-controlled police claimed that the ardent opposition leader had waved placards with political messages in a previous clean up campaign. It is quite pathetic to learn that communicating political messages is now a crime in a purported new ‘dispensation’.
As a district, we call upon regional and international legal instruments to aid us in our fight against Zanupf’s appetite to muzzle democratic space through persecution by prosecution.
The presence of a heavily armed Anti-riot police in Mbare Tuesday morning to obstruct Ngarivhume and his determined team’s cleaning blitz is a demonstration of the levels of Fascism in the desperate Zanupf outfit.
It is sarcastic to arrest a social transformer for picking up litter in the neighborhood, Zanupf represents a hybrid dictatorship.
Moreover, in the course of such arbitrary and unlawful deprivations of liberty, the detainees are frequently also deprived access both to lawyers and family ,basic health rights and also subjected to torture, harassment and other forms of inhuman treatment from partisan prison guards and police. It has been unearthed when Hon Joana Mamombe was denied medical attention when she was withdrawn from hospital even if our leader was in agony. Mdc Alliance Namibia supposes that it is fundamental , therefore,that the legal rules that exist in international law to remedy and prevent these kinds of basic human rights violations be adhered to by independent national judges and prosecutors , and that lawyers are aware of their contents ,to enable them to act effectively on behalf of their clients.
In a nutshell, Mdc Alliance Namibia demands the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners in the names of the illegally convicted Cde Makomborero Haruzivishe, Jacob Ngarivhume, Lengwani, Munyaradzi, Last Maengahama, Tungamirai Madzokere, only to mention but a few. We urge the thugocratic Zanupf regime to stop the gross abuse of human rights through abductions, disappearances, torture and long pre-trial detentions. Citizens Convergence for Change is the only panacea to socio-economic transformation. Citizens must converge to confront Zanupf dictatorship to promote comprehensive political and electoral reforms, respect of the rule of law and Constitutionalism as well as economic transformation.
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