Students Leaders case discharged

The seven were arrested on the 28th of March 2008 on the eve of the controversial March 29 harmonized elections for undermining police authority. The seven have been appearing in court on routine remand from the time of arrest up until the 18th of November 2009 when the court finally discharged their case. The arbitrary arrests and the long, expensive and painful experiences to get a verdict is evidence of the gross human rights violations prevalent in Zimbabwe. The 7 spent more than a year commuting from Harare to Bikita for routine court hearings that yielded nothing. This case is one of many where poor students are forced to put their lives on hold while they are harassed and held at ransom by court cases that never reach a verdict in a reasonable time, meanwhile, time and resources are wasted as in most cases students will not be re admitted into Colleges without court clearance.