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Zimrights employees briefly detained
27 Jun 2012 at 06:35hrs | Views
Five employees of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) were on Monday briefly detained by police in Karoi after attempting to hold 'legal clinics'. The police however claimed the group convened a meeting without notifying them.
A statement by ZimRights, posted on social networking site Facebook, listed the five detained as David Palasida, Nancy Madzivire, Rutendo Tsvangirayi, July Chimutsanya and Reverend Issac Chamonyonga.
ZimRights argue that legal clinics are not meetings because they are done on a 'one on one basis'. Those arrested were released "in the late hours of the day" following the intervention of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.
The group condemned the abuse of the repressive Public Order and Security Order (POSA) adding: "We have had enough of such interruptions to our work and in all similar previous cases the state has been found at the losing end.
We believe that these were just efforts to frustrate the work that we do."
A statement by ZimRights, posted on social networking site Facebook, listed the five detained as David Palasida, Nancy Madzivire, Rutendo Tsvangirayi, July Chimutsanya and Reverend Issac Chamonyonga.
ZimRights argue that legal clinics are not meetings because they are done on a 'one on one basis'. Those arrested were released "in the late hours of the day" following the intervention of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.
The group condemned the abuse of the repressive Public Order and Security Order (POSA) adding: "We have had enough of such interruptions to our work and in all similar previous cases the state has been found at the losing end.
We believe that these were just efforts to frustrate the work that we do."
Source - SW Radio
