WATCH: Pastor Mawarire's pre-arrest video

In May 2016, Baptist pastor Evan Mawarire unwittingly began the most important protest movement in Zimbabwe's recent history when he posted a video of himself draped in the Zimbabwean flag, expressing his frustration at the state of the nation. A subsequent series of YouTube videos and the hashtag Mawarire used, #ThisFlag, went viral, sparking protests and a boycott called by Mawarire, which he estimates was attended by over 8 million people.

On 1 February 2016 Mawarire, who left Zimbabwe last year in fear for his life, was arrested at Harare International Airport on his return to the country from New York.