The Zimbabwean embassy in London was Tuesday morning invaded by heavy-booted angry activists demanding the release of their Zim based colleague Itai Dzamara who was abducted in Harare on the 9th of March.
The activists led by Martin Chinyanga, marched into the posh Central London property armed with heavy boots, loudly stomping them and emotionally waving their placards while singing war-cries until the building became besieged under their noise. “It really looked like the whole building has been taken,” an onlooker attempted to describe the scene. It was at that point the embassy diplomats rushed to telephone for help and in a matter of minutes British Police armed with rifles descended onto the place.
Upon entering, police officers did not find difficulty handling the activists as the latter did not resist and were all thus force-marched to the nearby police station at Charing Cross Tube Station.
It was at the police station that Martin Chinyanga began to question the police action hinting that British Police cannot legally arrest for a crime committed in a foreign embassy, what has been the case with the Wikileaks whistleblower Julian Assange case. Assange has for more than two years been domiciled in the Ecuadorian embassy not far from the Zimbabwean embassy.

 
Charged for trespassing
But Assange’s case is different from Chinyanga’s since the former is under the full protection of the Ecuadorian laws whereas Chinyanga has breached the foreign nation (Zimbabwe)’s laws, and he was yesterday slapped with preliminary British charges of trespassing into the embassy.

He told ZimEye.com  soon after his release at 11 PM, the police have ordered him to return in May for routine reporting on the charges once the required evidence has been gathered. “They told me to come back in May,” he said.
Meanwhile the search for Dzamara continued in Zimbabwe with the MDC-T reportedly putting together a team of experts to surf around the country. He has been missing since his abduction on March 9, 2015. It is believed that the Mugabe government performed the act with the intention of demoralising his growing activism. READ MORE – ITAI DZAMARA: Demo Turns Nasty as Chinyanga is Arrested.