The Zimbabwe police raided a house used by members of the Prime Minister’s party on Saturday, accusing them of hoarding weapons. The raid signals a continued deterioration within the coalition government. The New York Times reports:
Tendai Biti, secretary-general of Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change, said about 50 armed police ”ransacked” the house in [...]
In response to the jailing of Roy Bennett, Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai has broken off ties with the ruling party. The Associate Foreign Press reports:
HARARE — Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday suspended cooperation with President Robert Mugabe’s “dishonest and unreliable” camp but said he will not quit the unity government.
The snub, [...]
Earlier today, the State Department declared Roy Bennett’s jailing – “harassment of the opposition”. They demanded an immediate end to the jailing.
But you need to demand it too. Bennett is a hero and a close personal friend. This guy knows what it means to be tortured by a brutal dictator, have his whole life up-ended, [...]
Cross-posted on Daily Kos:
I’ve talked about Roy Bennett and his imprisonment for weeks, talked about his courage, about Roy really being the heart and soul of the MDC opposition to Mugabe in Zimbabwe, and rejoiced when I learned he was released from the horrors of the Mutare prison — a prison that is known throughout [...]
Nearly two days after a court threw out an application to waive Roy Bennett’s bail–a ruling that should have prompted Roy’s release–he remains in jail, and one of the two senior level prison officials has confiscated the papers ordering Roy’s freedom and disappeared. This is yet another tactic showing that Mugabe’s footmen are grasping [...]
Just a moment ago, I received word that the Zimbabwean High Court has thrown out the State application to deny Roy Bennett bail after a judge granted it about a week ago. Since then, human right activist Justina Mukoko and ten other MDC activists have been released from prison, hany of whom had been [...]
I received another letter from Zimbabwe today. This one not only outs more Zimbabwean officials seeking to protect themselves from what I can only assume will be an undesirable fate post-Mugabe, but also the repeated and intentional unwillingness to obey even the most desperate court orders to ensure that urgently needed medical attention be [...]