ZimRights acquitted over ‘Reflections’ exhibition

Magistrate Dorothy Mwanyisa on Monday acquitted the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) and its senior official Joel Hita on charges of organising a photo exhibition in Masvingo showing the 2008 election brutality. However, a bookshop owner in Victoria Falls in Matabeleland North province was arrested on Friday for selling Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s book “At the Deep at End” at her shop.

Not only his book is targeted, but it is believed police and Zanu PF have launched a fresh campaign to crush the MDC in a plan which involves arresting Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Finance minister Tendai Biti and other top officials.

Dozens of youths from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC yesterday staged a demonstration in Masvingo calling for the release of the party’s youth wing president, Solomon Madzore, who is languishing in remand prison in Harare.

International protests of MDC-T branches urging South Africa to act on Zimbabwe got underway on Friday. On Saturday, more protests got underway in Australia, America, Sweden, and the Netherlands, where people gathered at the South African embassy at The Hague.