This is the first part of an article by Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe Corporate Affairs Director, Gugulethu Moyo, on her harrowing experience at the hands of the police last week.
I arrived at Glen View Police Station at about 11:30am on Tuesday morning, accompanied by a fellow legal practitioner, Alec Muchadehama. Our mission was to secure the release of Philemon Bulawayo, whom we found in a back office, sprawled on some chairs writhing in pain. The officer-in-charge advised us to wait outside for the investigating officer who would tell us why Bulawayo had been arrested. Twenty minutes later, two pick-up trucks, one written Chivaraidze Farm, swept into the police station and riot policemen swarmed out.
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