LIVE UPDATE: 16:45 – The arrested are now being forced to pay fines on charges of “Public Drinking.” ZLHR lawyer Jeremiah Bamu tells ZimEye.com the police later became conciliatory and made the arrested pay fines. Still not clear how many have the money to pay and will be released.
16:28 – The number of the arrested continues to grow…is now more than 60 men and women. They are denied to see their lawyer, Jeremiah Bamu (ZLHR).
16:07 – A woman in her periods is stranded inside, and is currently begging for cotton wool. Police are ignoring her repeated requests.
16:01 – Another woman has stripped naked in protest. VIDEO LOADING
ZRP Cops have just raided worshipers and democracy activists just outside the Dzamara rally venue and arrested over 50 MDC-T supporters.
ZimEye.com can reveal over (50) fifty MDC-T supporters men and women are locked up at Machipisa Police Station at present (Saturday 1530Hrs).
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights advocate Jeremiah Bamu told ZimEye.com, “I am just getting to the police station right now,” he said.
Although Bamu was earlier told by the police the raid is disconnected from the Dzamara rally, ZimEye can exclusively reveal the arrest has everything to do with the rally as the people were arrested at the entrance to the rally and are all prayer-rally attendants. “Yes but current indications are that its nothing material and entirely disconnected from the prayer meeting,” Bamu said.
But upon a follow up with Machipisa Police Station, ZimEye.com was told the move was a deliberate on the rally to frustrate the Dzamara prayer. One of the incarcerated told ZimEye.com:
“We had just gone to get some food, where we were rounded up. They beat up some of us and put us into a truck.”
ZimEye can reveal the police have shifted statements on the reason they have arrested the activists and at the time of writing, Mr Bamu later said: “The police are saying they are yet to decide and are requesting for time.”
At 16:10 Hrs, Mr Bamu was told by the police that the charge is “public drinking.” But the large crowd of mature men and women seen by ZimEye had no alcohol at all on them.
More to follow…
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lm sure they are not stupid asi they are paid peanuts neZANU.P.Futseke.I said b4 l will say it again time is slowly coming for Tsunami to rupture.On those days there is going to have gnash of teeth,those who were owns castration with be oxen .Those running around taking farmers evect people and put wild animals are they going to be eaten by garwe (crocodiles ).ZANU.P.Futseke will disappear like ltai Dzamara and his family is going thru now.lts called Tsunami second wave.l bet you they will run to MDC-T and say pliz cover me asi Mdc-T will say we don’t know u dzokai and face povo.Nomore on plane every day asi vachidya nyemba coz vanenge vadzoka kuHwahwa or Chikurubi.Remember we are the people of Zimbabwe who have suffered enough in our on back yard.We shall be one nation not calling Ndebele trabe as second class Zimbabweans .No one will open his/her month and say taura neShona not Ndebele in parliament. We will respect each other.Thats the Tsunami coming soon or later. l have a dream (Martin Luther King )Read my lips (George H W Bush )
“If true the law must take its course!”
Stop this nonsense Zanoid. There is no rule of law dude, police are the law. They arrest first and then spend hrs trying to decide on the crime.
Why are they pay ‘public drinking’ fines if they were not drinking beer? If true the law must take its course! Why condone public nuisance? Is it for political reasons… Rubbish!!!!
Not surprised to see these Evil Pigs/Police be used by Zanu PF to break the rule of the Law.The High Court allowed this meeting,Police were notified and they said all was okay.Now they decide to bend their own Rules again.Its time we turn on the Police,we might as well start a Civil War coz no one wants to Live in a Zanoid Police State,unless if they are Zanoid Elite who live life of Impunity while 90% of Zimbabweans suffer.
I am beginning to think the police want to incense people rise against this government….they are also reeling in poverty so by beating up people the government would be blamed and hopefully the wave of people anger will build up into a tsunami…..
I had a feeling that some stupid police would be used by Zanu PF idiots to disrupt this prayer