The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) says a cabinet minister and Zimbabwe’s police commissioner general evaded being incarcerated after they hastily paid more than ZWL$300,000 as compensation to two victims of state security brutality.
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe, police.
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A 40-year-old Rusape man can heave a sigh after a court in the small Manicaland town Wednesday ordered a police officer and his bosses to pay him $150 000 in terms of compensation for damages suffered after he was beaten by a vicious dog set upon him by a law enforcement agent.
Magistrate Rufaro Mangwiro ordered Constable Zwelibanzi Masuko, Commissioner-General of police Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe to compensate Unity Saunyama who had sued them for damages arising from injuries he sustained from being attacked by a police dog.
Saunyama was assisted by Peggy Tavagadza of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights to sue Masuko, Matanga and Kazembe for $248 755.
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A Zimbabwe court has ordered a police officer and his bosses to pay RTGS$150 000 to a 40 year-old man as compensation for damages suffered after he was mauled by a dog set upon him by a law enforcement agent.
Rusape Magistrate Rufaro Mangwiro recently ordered Constable Zwelibanzi Masuko, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe to compensate Unity Saunyama, a resident of Rusape in Manicaland province after he sued them for damages arising from injuries which he sustained from being attacked by a police dog.
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