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The High Court has confirmed that two Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri did not lie when they reported that they were abducted and tortured by alleged state security agents in 2020.
Renowned poet and author Abel Mauchi has lambasted Zanu PF violence and penned a poem describing how 35 people from his village under Chief Makore in Gutu were tortured or murdered in the Presidential rerun in 2008.
A Ugandan novelist charged with insulting President Yoweri Museveni has taken the government to court over his alleged torture by soldiers.
Outspoken MDC Alliance vice chairman Job Sikhala has labelled President Emmerson Mnangagwa a “monitor lizard (Mupurwa)” after his Zanu PF party supporters abducted and tortured an opposition supporter to death recently.
“Why should someone be killed for supporting the MDC Alliance? No one should be killed for supporting Zanu PF either. We are saying you’re supposed to freely support a leader of your choice. Sugar is expensive for everyone whether you support Zanu PF or MDC but it’s more expensive for those in Zanu PF because it is their father (President Emmerson Mnangagwa) who is ruling. This man wanted a simple thing, change,” opposition MDC Alliance vice president Lynette Karenyi said.
Opposition MDC Alliance member Nyasha Zhambe Mawere who was allegedly abducted and tortured by suspected Zanu PF thugs during party leader Nelson Chamisa’s tour of Gutu has succumbed to the injuries.
Human rights lobby group Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has challenged government to come out clean on its sincerity to investigate and end human rights abuses, mostly perpetrated by State security agents.
Human rights lawyers have put Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe on the spot, demanding that he proves State claims that three MDC Alliance officials currently in remand prison raised false allegations of abduction and torture by security forces to tarnish government’s image.
Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has taunted the three MDC Alliance abductees of being “very happy to be at the hospital” where they are recuperating at a private hospital in Harare after being tortured by suspected State security.
Opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has sought the intervention of the United Nations to facilitate investigations into the alleged abduction and torture of his three party members by suspected State security agents on Wednesday last week.