Source: Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights
Lunchtime Update
In Bulawayo, ZLHR is offering emergency legal services to four people who have been arrested in the country’s second largest city.
In Zvishavane in Midlands province, ZLHR is assisting six people, who have been arrested for allegedly gathering in the defunct asbestos mining town.
In Victoria Falls in Matabeleland province, ZLHR’s services are being rendered to 16 people who have been arrested for peacefully protesting in the resort town.
In Masvingo province, ZLHR has deployed lawyers following the arrest of some residents.
In Chipinge in Manicaland province, lawyers from ZLHR are attending to some people who have been arrested.
In Harare, ZLHR has been notified of the arrest of some media practitioners including senior freelance journalist Godwin Mangudya and Alpha Media Holdings journalists Elias Mambo, Richard Chidza and Tafadzwa Ufumeli, who were harassed and interrogated for covering a protest in the high-density suburb of Mufakose. Police officers who detained the journalists at Marimba Police Station ordered them to delete some pictures of victims of police brutality, which they had captured.
ZLHR will keep you informed as the day progresses.
Source: Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights