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Over 200 villagers in Mutare attend ZLHR mobile clinics
02 Feb 2017 at 13:51hrs | Views
Communications officerr at the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Kumbirai Mafunda has said over 200 villagers or residents attended his organisation's mobile clinics where lawyers educated them about issues of their rights.
"While in Harare, ZLHR lawyers were occupied at police stations and in courts representing several Human Rights Defenders facing persecution, it was a different story in Chikanga high density suburb in Mutare, in Manicaland province, where more than 200 residents attended ZLHR's mobile legal clinic," he said.
"During the mobile legal clinic, the first one to be rolled out in 2017, our member lawyers Rangarirai Mubata, Passmore Nyakureba and Rumbi of Maunga, Maanda Associates Legal Practitioners and projects lawyers Blessing Nyamaropa and Peggy Tavagadza and projects officers Kennedy Majamanda, Fannuel Hungwe and Linda Sibanda offered free legal aid and assistance as well constitutional rights education to the residents at no cost."
He said they were encouraged that ZLHR's mobile legal clinics continue to attract Zimbabweans of diverse social, economic and political backgrounds, whilst also allowing the lawyers to obtain first hand evidence for important public interest and strategic litigation that we hope will improve lives and society in the longer term.
"While in Harare, ZLHR lawyers were occupied at police stations and in courts representing several Human Rights Defenders facing persecution, it was a different story in Chikanga high density suburb in Mutare, in Manicaland province, where more than 200 residents attended ZLHR's mobile legal clinic," he said.
"During the mobile legal clinic, the first one to be rolled out in 2017, our member lawyers Rangarirai Mubata, Passmore Nyakureba and Rumbi of Maunga, Maanda Associates Legal Practitioners and projects lawyers Blessing Nyamaropa and Peggy Tavagadza and projects officers Kennedy Majamanda, Fannuel Hungwe and Linda Sibanda offered free legal aid and assistance as well constitutional rights education to the residents at no cost."
He said they were encouraged that ZLHR's mobile legal clinics continue to attract Zimbabweans of diverse social, economic and political backgrounds, whilst also allowing the lawyers to obtain first hand evidence for important public interest and strategic litigation that we hope will improve lives and society in the longer term.
Source - Byo24News
