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Zimbabwean Author Dangarembga Guilty of Inciting Violence

Award-winning novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga and her friend and fellow protester Julie Barnes, have been fined U.S.$193 and given a six-month suspended jail sentence after a court found them guilty of "inciting public violence" during a 2020 anti-government protest. Their sentence has been suspended for five years.

Dangarembga and Barnes were arrested at the end of July 2020 after they marched in the empty streets of Harare, holding a banner that read 'We want better - reform our institutions' before they were bundled into a police van. The novelist was freed on bail a day later.

The trial had dragged for many months, with Dangarembga making dozens of court appearances. She said the verdict is an attack on freedom of expression, and that she would appeal.   

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