ZINASU President & 3 others in court

Zimbabwe National Students Union president Clever Bere and three other student leaders are set to appear in court Friday after spending two nights in police custody.

The student leaders were arrested at the University of Zimbabwe on Wednesday 5 August after addressing a student’s general meeting to discuss the challenges being faced by students at the institution.

The four are being charged under Section 37 of the Criminal Codification Act for…”participating in a gathering with intent to promote public violence, breach of peace or bigotry.”

On Thursday the four student activists were handed over to the dreaded CID Law and Order section at Harare Central Police station.

Meanwhile in Masvingo 5 students were picked up by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Law and Order officers at the Great Zimbabwe University campus yesterday late afternoon in connection with Wednesday’s protest at the campus over tuition fees.

Six CID Law and Order officers picked up the student activists at the college campus and proceeded to Masvingo Central police station. The six were detained at Masvingo Central Police Station yesterday evening and ZINASU is still to get more information regarding the detention.

Only three names of the detained have been confirmed so far and these are Tafadzwa Kutya, Gamuchirai Mukura and Cynthia Zuze.

ZINASU strongly condemns ‘the sadistic violations of students’ rights by the government of the day.

‘Arrests, detention of students are continuing unabated despite the peaceful manner in which students are holding their meetings,’ ZINASU said in a statement.