Please see below: 52 Zimbawean comrades arrested for meeting about Egypt in Harare. People are being beaten and it looks like the charge will be serious. Please get on skype urgently and start harassing the regime:
-Wayne Bvudzijena (police spokesman): +263 11 801 172 (mobile) -Happyton Bonyongwe (Director of the Central Intelligence Organisation): +263 4 497 849 (home) -Patrick Chinamasa (minister of "Justice"): 263 4 860 006 (home) -President's Office: +263 4 252 440 or +263 4 700 071 -Police Commisioner Augustine Chihuri: +263 4 250 008 (office) or +263 11 808 290 (mobile) -Home Affairs (police) Minister Kembo Mohadi: +263 11 605 424 (mobile) or +263 4 794628 (office) -State Security (C.I.O.) Minister Didymus Mutasa: +263 11 200 532 (mobile) or 263 4 774189 (office) Other forms of solidarity welcome From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shantha Bloemen Sent: 20 February 2011 09:50 PM Dear friends 52 people representing students, union members and workers were arrested yesterday afternoon at 4:30pm and are being detained at Harare Central prison. Munyararzi Gwisai, Director of the Labor Law Center, and my husband, is amongst those detained.They are probably going to be charged on Tuesday with conspiring against the state. The state can detain them for 48 hours without laying charges. They were hosting a closed door meeting at the Labor Law Center in down town Harare when the police raided the premises. The meeting was infiltrated by CIO. They were discussing the events in the middle east and the fall of Egyptian dictator Mubarak and had just shown a film of the uprising. They are being individually interrogated and, according to one comrade who saw them briefly this morning, the ring leaders are being beaten. They have legal representation from the Zimbabwe Association of Human Rights, who should have answers about the exact charges that will be laid against them tomorrow morning. Any pressure or media enquires you can apply would be most appreciated. I will keep you posted as I get more details. Unfortunately I am in the US at the moment so trying to figure out how best I can assist. Thanks in advance for any help. Kind regards, Shantha __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5891 (20110220) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com <http://www.eset.com/> _______________________________________________ Debate-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fahamu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debate-list -- Keep Left PO Box 93428 Yeoville 2198 -- Keep Left PO Box 93428 Yeoville 2198 -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
