The MDC director general, Toendepi Shonhe was today arrested by the police on a trumped-up charge of perjury.
Shonhe, who is being charged under Section 183 (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification) Act, is accused of having lied under oath when he swore to an affidavit that three members of the MDC had been re-abducted by State security agents.
The three activists, Lloyd Tarumbwa, Fani Tembo and Terry Musona, had been taken by the police from their homes in Banket for interviews at the Attorney General’s Office.
By 6pm, Shonhe was still detained at Harare Central where officers from the police’s Law and Order section were recording a statement from him in the presence of his lawyer, Chris Mhike, of Atherstone and Cook Legal Practitioners.
