Zimbabwe opposition figures detained in crackdown after disputed election
Source: The Guardian
Zimbabwe opposition figures detained in crackdown after disputed election
Opposition politicians and activists arrested since President Emmerson Mnangagwa won second term
Nyasha Chingono in Harare
Tue 26 Sep 2023 08.30 BST
Last modified on Tue 26 Sep 2023 11.22 BST
Barely a week after being sworn in as an opposition MP following elections in Zimbabwe last month, Gift Siziba found himself in police custody facing several charges, including inciting violence at a football match and defacing posters of an opponent in Bulawayo.
While other legislators debate in parliament, Siziba, from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has been in and out of court defending his innocence.
Siziba is just one of a number of opposition politicians and activists who have been arrested and charged with various offences since President Emmerson Mnangagwa won a second term in the 23 August vote, a result the CCC described as a “gigantic fraud”.
Others have faced a worse fate.
Womberaishe Nhende, a newly elected local councillor from a Harare suburb, was allegedly abducted, tortured and dumped naked near a river earlier this month, according to rights groups.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/26/zimbabwe-opposition-figures-detained-in-crackdown-after-disputed-election
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