Zimbabwe: Three Days of Hell At the Hands of the Police

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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