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Three Zimbabwean Activists Removed From Plane By Security Agents

8 months agoThu, 01 Aug 2024 07:14:32 GMT
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Three Zimbabwean Activists Removed From Plane By Security Agents

Robson Chere, the Secretary General of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), pro-democracy campaigner Namatai Kwekweza, and opposition councillor Samuel Gwenzi were reportedly removed from a plane at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in Zimbabwe on Wednesday, July 31st.

Kwekweza is the leader of the WeLead Trust, while Gwenzi is the Harare City Council’s Ward 5 councillor, having won the seat during the 2023 general elections under the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party ticket.

According to a post on X (formerly Twitter) by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), the three individuals had already boarded the plane when they were taken off the plane by state security agents. It said:

We are greatly concerned about the whereabouts of pro-democracy campaigner Kwekweza and two other people, who reached out to us after they were removed from a plane at Robert Mugabe International Airport.

We are trying to ascertain their whereabouts and what is happening to them.

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The Kofi Annan Foundation also weighed in, demanding to know the whereabouts of Namatai Kwekweza. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Foundation said:

We are deeply concerned about reports that Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Prize winner [Namatai Kwekweza] has been detained by security services in Harare.

We call on the Zimbabwean authorities to confirm her whereabouts and explain what charges are being brought against her. Without charges, Namatai should be released immediately.

In a subsequent update, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) reported that they were finally granted access to the three individuals after they had been held in incommunicado detention for at least 8 hours. It added:

Robson was visibly tortured and in severe pain. They have been advised that their charge is disorderly conduct.

The allegations are they participated in a demonstration at Rotten Row when Jameson Timba and others appeared in court.

They are spending the night at Harare Central police station. At RGM Airport, they were held incommunicado by state agents.

In a statement, the Information for Development Trust revealed that the trio intended to travel to Victoria Falls and attend the 5th African Philanthropic Conference. Reads the statement:

ZIMBABWEAN authorities on Wednesday 31 July 2024 forcibly removed four pro-democracy campaigners from a plane, which they had boarded in Harare and held them in incommunicado detention for several hours.

The four pro-democracy campaigners namely Namatai Kwekweza, the leader of WeLead Trust, Robson Chere, the Secretary-General of Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), Samuel Gwenzi, a former Councillor for Harare Ward 5 and Vusumuzi Moyo, were ejected by some unidentified people from an aircraft at Robert Mugabe International Airport, where they intended to travel to Victoria Falls and attend the 5th African Philanthropic Conference, which is an annual gathering of civil society policy influencers and other stakeholders, which is currently underway in the resort town.

Human rights lawyers from Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) unsuccessfully tried to get access to Kwekweza, Chere, Gwenzi and Moyo after they requested legal assistance and were held in incommunicado detention for about eight hours before their legal practitioners eventually located them.

Chere sustained some injuries after he was tortured by the captors, who reportedly used some planks and iron roads to torture him.

The quartet, who are represented by Kelvin Kabaya, Jeremiah Bamu and Tinashe Chinopfukutwa of ZLHR, was detained overnight at Harare Central Police Station and were charged with disorderly conduct with Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers alleging that they participated in an unsanctioned demonstration held at Harare Magistrates Court in June, where they protested against the detention of Citizens Coalition for Change political party leader Jameson Timba and some of the opposition party members and demanding their release from prison.

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24 Comments

🦁 · 8 months ago
m coll sho ye new Zanu pf sympathizers
Erudite · 8 months ago
These so called terrorists hiding under the vignette of activism had to be stopped...Always attention seeking to satisfy their increasingly psychotic Great Satan...We cannot have the country descending into anarchy just to please a few fringe maniacs who are too lazy to find a job.. Hopefully one day these so called activists will realize that doing things for clout and retweets has no reward... Erudite out
Antman · 8 months ago
That's lame coming from you sir. How many people protested in Solidarity of the 78? No arrest were made from then upto date meaning the so called policing force arw incompetent. Also it shows that Zimbabwe is governed by lawless crooks or the law makers are dead as a dodo they just work up every morning to be Zombies in their offices
Chatunga · 8 months ago
ZANU is just full of Shit
👀👀 · 8 months ago
changosara kuita command freedom,ku Venezuella uko pipo are demonstrating in their numbers kuhwina kwakaita President weko,arikupinda third term saka varikuti wakavhoterwa naani isu hatina kukuvhotera,vanhu varikurohwa vamwe varikusungwa bt varikuramba varimu street kt hatichakuda hatina kukuvhotera,maZimba tinotya ,especially now tirikutonzwa kusungwa kwevamwe,vamwe vachitorwa mundege,and they know kt tinokwata ,so the suffer continues,or else command freedom,coz muno muZim zvese zvaa zve command
Anonymous · 8 months ago
You can't publicise creating chaos and then you are left like that . Democracy is not chaos and disorder , kana Iwo ma USA amunoteedzera vanodashura nekusunga kana Kuti uraya chaiko . Check how big their jail's are and check how many were instigating chaos who are in , vamwe vakaurawa kaare. You don't win by creating chaos and anarchy, national pride comes first woita zvinhu zvine order. Vanhu vanonzwa ukaita order and campaign unohwina wopindawo zvino I wonder who told you guys Kuti ukaonekwa nevekunze you get mailage . Think twice mofira halaz . There is no country that want anarchy .
Chibaba · 8 months ago
ED is cruel than Bob
👀👀 · 8 months ago
how are you chibaba
sad emoji1
· 8 months ago
Ndiyo Independence yacho here iyi?
gaucho of pampas · 8 months ago
muZim hazviko matororo "terrorists" vakachibata kuti dzvii hapana hapana panotoda chimwe chimurenga kuti zviite
kwachu · 8 months ago
tyran..dictatorship
Anonymous · 8 months ago
How do define prodemocracy and hit by planks and iron - is this dramatic irony or extreme language at its worst- just a thought
Ediots · 8 months ago
The gvt incites violence
Corruptmore Looto · 8 months ago
Of course, that's what the regime is good at, beating people for nothing but fixing the economy, power crisis and infrastructure bottleneck, nikisi busy busy nezvisina basa
Anonymous · 8 months ago
6800 projects what are u on.
off duty officer · 8 months ago
let's get the **** out of here and leave these ****ers alone
kain · 8 months ago
i do not encourage you guys to go against the powers that be, you will suffer for nothing.
🤦🏽‍♂️ · 8 months ago
With that attitude kana Chimurenga chingadai chisina kuitika bambo
Mukoma Oncemore · 8 months ago
Human Rights organizations want to run this country
kain · 8 months ago
that's why they are called 'Welead trust' ie to say we will lead you.
Lol😂 · 8 months ago
WeLead trust wanzwa kuti ndeyani here nhai kaini
Povo... · 8 months ago
you're An Ar-seHole..
Povo... · 8 months ago
Once more ar

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