A Nkayi based MDC activist, Joram Dube is suing the police for an undisclosed amount of money for unlawful arrest and detention at Nkayi Police station in June 2010. Dube was arrested at his home on 17 June 2010 following an instruction from the Officer Commanding District Nkayi, Jairos Wiston Chiwona. He was arrested from 17 June and was released on 25 He appealed against his illegal detention at the Bulawayo High Court and the judgment passed on 14 October 2010, which ruled that Dubes arrest was unlawful.
The letter dated 2 February 2011 addressed to the Police Commissioner General, Ignatius Chihuri by the lawyers representing Dube reads; The unlawful arrest and detention of our client was unlawful and uncalled for. The law proscribes the police from doing such things. We are thus instructed to notify your offices as we hereby do that we shall be bringing a legal suit against your office, that your parent ministry as well as the individual police officers.
Dube is being represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights
Meanwhile, another MDC member, Pilate Tshuma who was arrested in November 2010 and charged for insulting the President was yesterday given reprieve when Bulawayo High Court Judge Justice Nicholas Ndou, set aside his sentence and conviction for calling Robert Mugabe a dog. Justice Ndou ordered for a retrial of the case by another magistrate.
Tshuma last year appealed to High Court arguing that he was unfairly convicted and fined US$50.
MDC Vice President Thokozani Khupe on Tuesday donated sewing machines, sewing threads, pairs of scissors, 200 m of cloth material worth thousands of dollars to the Jairos Jiri Centre in Makokoba, Bulawayo. Jairos Jiri is a training institute for the disabled.
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