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WATCH: Zimbabwe police claims Sky News video shot in 2016

by Staff reporter
29 Jan 2019 at 18:35hrs | Views
The Zimbabwe Republic Police spokesperson Charity Charamba, at a news conference today, claimed that a Sky News video of a police officer and a soldier assaulting a handcuffed man was shot in 2016.

Sky News reporter John Sparks, who witnessed the incident before filing his report, told ZimLive that he was in Russia in 2016 - and possibly couldn't have shot the video then.

Sparks' eyewitness account told how he saw a policeman striking a man's head with a truncheon on Saturday, accompanied by a soldier and a plain clothes security agent who slapped, punched and kicked the man in broad daylight.

The Sky News crew then followed the group on Harare's Chiremba Road as the officers ordered the victim to run, then bundled him into a private taxi.

Caught on camera, the policeman then dragged the man out and the group started hitting his face as he sat handcuffed on the ground while onlookers covered their eyes.



President Mnangagwa tweeted that he was "appalled" by scenes he had seen in the video and ordered that the assailants be arrested.

Mnangagwa said the scenes documented by Sky News are "not the Zimbabwean way" as he promised to arrest those involved.

Source - online
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