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Police teagas Thokozani Khupe
20 May 2017 at 00:59hrs | Views
MDC vice-president Thokozani Khupe has claimed that she is in a state of shock after police reportedly threw a teargas canister into her car in Lupane.
The incident allegedly happened as she was on voter registration campaign in Lupane ward 9.
"We were having a private meeting encouraging our supporters to go and register to vote. As women, we have a programme where we encourage all the mothers to take their children with them, as they go to register to vote and it was during that meeting that police attacked us unprovoked," she said as reported by NewsDay.
"This has never happened in my life, I have never been teargassed. Imagine the innocent women and children being attacked by the police, this is shocking.
"Our offence is that we are campaigning for our political party," she said.
The incident allegedly happened as she was on voter registration campaign in Lupane ward 9.
"We were having a private meeting encouraging our supporters to go and register to vote. As women, we have a programme where we encourage all the mothers to take their children with them, as they go to register to vote and it was during that meeting that police attacked us unprovoked," she said as reported by NewsDay.
"This has never happened in my life, I have never been teargassed. Imagine the innocent women and children being attacked by the police, this is shocking.
"Our offence is that we are campaigning for our political party," she said.
Source - NewsDay
