An MDC T female supporter stripped naked yesterday in protest against illegal arrest after she together with 67 activists were abducted outside the Zimbabwe grounds where the Itai Dzamara prayer rally was being held.
People were just rounded up outside the rally venue as they were coming from buying food. They were forced onto Police trucks and taken into police cells at Machipisa.
For over two hours, desperate police officers failed to declare charges. As the arrested activists and worshipers continued demanding answers, an angry woman stripped her clothes beyond her undergarments in protest.
“Why have you arrested us? What have we done? You better kill me along with Dzamara then,” she lashed out.
In the following video footage, she is seen screaming aloud in anger as others in equal rage break in song.
By this time, their sadza meals they had bought at the shops had gone cold.
Many are wondering on the implications of democracy in Zimbabwe. Sadly the same woman who dared to openly flaunt her activism will have to stay in prison until Monday as her MDC party led by Morgan Tsvangirai forsook her.
Despite close to 100 party members being arrested in broad daylight, there was no mention whatsoever of the incident in party spokesperson Obert Gutu’s statement at the end of the day.
Efforts to obtain a comment from Morgan Tsvangirai were fruitless.
During the time that the group of elderly men and women were all in the police cells, one woman in her periods struggled for hours pleading for cotton wool. The scene was so humiliating and disturbing as she was heard by men young and old begging for cotton wool. She was only later assisted by the Zimbabwe lawyers for Human Rights Jeremiah Bamu who saved the day managing also to bring some sanitary wear.
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