Bad news and bad GNUs
Friday, August 1st, 2008After the news that the ZCTU’s Wellington Chibebe and Lovemore Matombo will need to wait another month for their trial in Harare, keeping them silenced on unfair bail conditions that prohibit their addressing public gatherings, there are now worrying reports of another way the Mugabe regime is trying to shut up the embattled Zimbabwean union movement.
Ben Madzimure is the editor of the ZCTU’s journal, The Worker. He has been arrested after getting into a scuffle with a group of policemen. Apparently he witnessed the men indecently searching a female currency dealer in Central Harare, and when he protested this, they arrested him. After being taken to Harare Central Police Station, he is now being accused of writing falsehoods. ZCTU lawyers are trying to secure his release. (more…)
