Zimbabwe: ED Advisor Condemns Mahere, Sikhala and Chin'ono's Arrest

14 January 2021

A member of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) and media proprietor Trevor Ncube has castigated the state for arresting the MDC Alliance duo of Advocate Fadzayi Mahere, Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala as well as journalist Hopewell Chin'ono on a charge he said was annulled by the Constitutional Court in 2014.

The three were arrested separately on charges of communicating falsehoods following tweets that alleged police had beaten an infant to death while enforcing Covid-19 lockdown rules last week. The police later issued a statement refuting the claims.

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