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Arrested Zimbabwean Author Tsitsi Dangarembga Freed by ZooOga: 4:03am On Aug 02, 2020 |
Corruption always fights back! Arrested Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga freed By Agencies -August 1, 2020 Zimbabwean top writer and Booker Prize nominee, Tsitsi Dangarembga, was freed on bail on Saturday following her arrest during anti-government protests a day earlier, an AFP journalist in court said. Dangarembga, 61, was charged with incitement to commit violence and breaching anti-coronavirus health regulations after staging a two-women demonstration in Harare which coincided with the second anniversary of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s disputed election. She was taken away from a street corner in the upmarket Harare suburb of Borrowdale alongside another protester and hauled into a truck full of police armed with AK-47 rifles and riot gear. Police had banned the protests called by opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume, head of a small party called Transform Zimbabwe, against alleged state corruption and the country’s slumping economy. The government had denounced the protests, calling them an “insurrection”. The Cambridge-educated author’s arrest came days after her latest novel, “This Mournable Body,” entered the long list for the Booker Prize. Eleven other people arrested on Friday, including Fadzayi Mahere, a lawyer and spokeswoman for the main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance, were also released on Saturday. Mahere live-streamed via Facebook images of riot police scaling metal barriers into a suburban eatery where she had retreated after her protest, and arrested her. A magistrate court sent them back home on ZW$5,000 (US$65) bail and ordered them to return to court on September 18. https://www.today.ng/news/africa/arrested-zimbabwean-author-tsitsi-dangarembga-freed-310438
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