Arrested MDC Alliance Leader in Court Over Flash Protest
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Movement for Democratic Change Alliance youth leader, Obey Sithole, is expected to appear in court for an initial remand on criminal nuisance charges for allegedly participating in a demonstration early this month.
In a tweet, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) said Sithole, who spent his second day in police custody on Tuesday and is represented by Obey Shava, allegedly protested in public warning the government to desist from brutalizing MDC Alliance activists.
The ZLHR, in a statement, further said some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers released him from police cells yesterday morning to appear at Harare Magistrates Court “but later made a volte-face.”
Sithole endures second night in detention
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April 2021 spent his second night in police detention at Harare
Central Police Station after some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)
officers released him from police cells yesterday morning to appear at
Harare Magistrates Court but later made a volte-face.While Sithole and his lawyer Obey Shava of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human
Rights (ZLHR) were at the prosecutors’ “vetting” office at Harare
Magistrates Court, ZRP officers then decided to take him back to
Harare Central Police Station saying they had received instructions
from their superiors who advised that it was too early to take Sithole