01 March 2011
Rosemary Munetsi, Ward 27 councillor in Mutasa Central, Solomon Mutizawafa, Stanley Saruwaka, Tendai Fore, Lloyd Nyamutsika and Brian Nyabereka who were remanded in custody by a Mutare magistrate are granted a US$20 bail each.
01 March 2011
Patrick Kamanga, 26, who was abducted and assaulted by Zanu PF thugs at a torture base on Monday, was released that evening following police’s intervention. Working on a tip-off, Mbare’s Matapi police officers made a follow up, tracking down the thugs to their base in Mbare. However, no arrests were made.
02 March 2011
Munyaradzi Shoko, 27, the son to Chitungwiza South MP, Hon. Misheck Shoko is assaulted at night assaulted by six men some in army uniform in Unit G, Chitungwiza accsuing him why he had snubbed the Zanu PF ati-restrictive measures event held in Harare earlier that day.Munyaradzi received treatment at Chitungwiza General Hospital and made a report at Makoni Police Station.
09 March 2011
MDC Deputy Treasurer – General and Energy and Power Development Minister Hon. Elton Mangoma is arrested at his government offices by three plain clothes police officers.
09 March 2011
Mazowe Central MP Hon Shepherd Mushonga is arrested in Chiweshe on charges of stealing quarry stones.
09 March 2011
Seven Nehumambi, the MDC Sunningdale District Youth Assembly chairperson is abducted and assualted by rowdy Zanu PF youths before he was dumped at Matapi Police Station where he is detained with no charges laid against him. Nehumambi was abducted at Granville Cemetery and assaulted by visibly drunk Zanu PF youths from Mbare at the burial of a Zanu PF youth, Taurai Dzikamai.
11 March 2011
Mazowe Central MP Hon. Shepherd Mushonga who was arrested last night is granted a US$50 bail by a Bindura magistrate. He is facing charges of digging and stealing quarry stones in Chiweshe from a Zanu PF councillor. The councillor claimed that the stones were worth US$700.
14 March 2011
Harare South District Police bar the MDC from holding a People’s Peace Rally on 19 March 2011 at the Zimbabwe Grounds claiming the ground is booked for the whole by Zanu PF.
15 March 2011
Try Karedza, the Mt Darwin North district MDC Youth Assembly chairperson is abducted by seven armed men in police uniform and taken to Nyanguwu near the Zimbabwe’s border with Mozambique where he was blinded folded and severely assaulted.
The unidentified men, driving in a white truck, later left him unconsicious. After recovering, Karedza sought assistance from some good Samaritans who took him to Bindura where he is seeking medical attention.
15 March 2011
In Chiredzi South, Cephas Magezani of Ward 7, Chikombedzi manages to escape abduction after four unidentified men attempted to kidnap him at gunpoint at his home.
16 March 2011
Harare Central District Police bar the MDC from holding its People’s Peace Rally at Glamis Stadium on 19 March 2011claiming Zanu PF would hold a similar rally 500m away from the venue.
16 March 2011
Two MDC activists, Taona Chikono and Oliver Mukombwe from Chipadze in Bindura are arrested on forged charges of assaulting one Last Siraya. They are detained at Bindura Central Police Station.
25 March 2011
Thirteen MDC activists from Zaka district, Masvingo province have been arraigned before the courts facing charges of public violence and the murder of a Zanu PF activist, Antony Masava, in the run-up to the bloody June 27 2008 runoff elections. Masava from Ward 21 in Zaka was found dead with his body badly bruised near his homestead on June 13 2008. The 13 appeared before Zaka resident magistrate Godfrey Gogo on Friday. They were further remanded out of custody to March 29.
06 April 2011
Armed riot police assaulted MDC supporters attending a memorial service at the Warren Hills Cemetery in Harare. Teargas was used on the crowd, without any provocation or warning. The incident took place just after President Morgan Tsvangirai addressed the crowd at the cemetery and food was about to be served.
08 April 2011
Police in Mutare charge Nyanga North and Constitution Select Committee (COPAC) chairperson, Hon. Douglas Mwonzora with undermining the authority of or insulting the President for allegedly enquiring on the health status of Mugabe.
09 April 2011
Riot police bar congregants from entering St Peters School in Highfield for the Prayer for Peace church service, which had been organised by Save Zimbabwe. Later in the day the police disrupted the church service at Nazarene Church in Glen Norah, which had been chosen as an alternative venue. Teargas was fired into the church and the residential area and congregates; residents and children are indiscriminately assaulted. Thirteen are arrested.
11 April 2011
Witness Dube, the personal driver of Vice President Thokozani Khupe is re-arrested in Bulawayo and dragged to court on charges of public violence. He was arrested together with two other MDC members, Lloyd Chamboko and Ntongehle Mhlanga. They were granted a US$50 bail each by Magistrate Ndumo Masuku and the matter was postponed to April 29. A week before, Dube had been arrested on allegations of denouncing the Zanu PF’s anti – sanctions campaign petition and spent five days in custody before being released on bail.
13 April 2011
National Healing Minister Moses Mzila Ndlovu and Catholic priest, Father Marko Mnkandla are arrested in Lupane, Matebeleland North province on allegations that they uttered statements to the effect that the police, army, and the CIO agents work with Robert Mugabe in committing human rights abuses.
18 April 2011
Rwisai Nyakauru, the 82 year old MDC activist and village headman who was abducted and assaulted by Zanu PF supporters in Nyanga before he was remanded in custody at the Mutare Remand Prison dies.
19 April 2011
Police in Hwange arrest, interrogate and later release three lawyers from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) and four high MDC officials.
27 April 2011
10 MDC Mashonaland West provincial members are arrested in Kariba for allegedly holding an illegal meeting. They were infact finalising plans to travel to Bulawayo for the MDC Congress. Among those arrested was Greenwich Ndanga, the MDC Mashonaland West Provincial Secretary.
28 April 2011
Hifa artistic director, Manuel Bagorro and three other Hifa officials are summoned to the Harare Central Police Station by officers who wanted to know if The incident comes after four top HIFA officials were summoned to Harare Central Police Station on Thursday to discuss their censorship clearance for the show.
01 May 2011
Four sculptors who participated at Harare International Festival of Arts (HIFA) are attacked by Zanu PF thugs in central Harare. The sculptors said that they were heading for HIFA when they were picked up by a group of Zanu PF youths, taken to the party’s provincial offices and beaten up.
01 May 2011
Nine families from Ward 1 Chimanimani East who are MDC activists had their houses, livestock, crops and property worth thousands of dollars burnt by Zanu PF thugs. They were also tied to trees and heavily assaulted with electric codes.
The nine families constitute 29 individuals and they are currently homeless and were left with virtually nothing after all their documents, food and property were destroyed to ashes while they looked on.
09 May 2011
Five members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza), including leader Jennie Williams are brutally assaulted by the riot police as they demonstrated against Zesa’s load shedding and unfair billing methods. Over 500 women took part in the demonstration.
09 May 2011
Water Resources Minister and Lobengula MP, Samuel Sipepa Nkomo and State Enterprises Minister Gorden Moyo are barred from entering the notorious Khami Maximum Prsion in Bulawayo where they had visited jailed Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MFL) leader Paul Siwela.
10 May 2011
Tonderai Gift Nyabadza, an MDC activist is arrested in Nyanga North, Manicaland province on charges of inciting political violence in February.
30 May 2011
Dozens of MDC activists are arrested in Glen View on allegations of murdering a police officer at a night club at Glen View 3 Shopping Centre. The police officer was killed by unknown revellers on 29 May 2011.
01 June 2011
Sergeant Alois Mabhunu, a police officer accused of using a toilet reserved for Robert Mugabe is jailed for 10 days. Mabhunu was arrested on 6 May at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo for using a toilet designated for Mugabe.
23 June 2011
Tendai Chinyama, the MDC Kambuzuma district organising secretary was today abducted this afternoon at the Harare City Council Bishop depot by three unidentified armed men driving in a Mitsubishi L200 cream twin-cab. His whereabouts remain unknown and the MDC fears for his life.
24 June 2011
Jameson Timba Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office and MDC Secretary for International Relations is abducted outside his offices by three police in plain clothes. Police are charging with calling Robert Mugabe a liar. His whereabouts are unknown.
29 June 2011
Two journalists from The Standard newspaper, Nevanji Madanhire, the editor and Patience Nyangove, a reporter, are arrested at their offices over a story published on Sunday involving the arrest of Hon. Jameson Timba.
10 July 2011
Welshman Ncube, Moses Mzila-Ndlovu, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga and several officials from their party are arrested in Hwange, Matebeleland North. They were later released without charge after being detained for more than three hours.
13 July 2011
Allan Svotwa, the MDC district chairperson for Headlands was on Wednesday night taken by Colonel Svodzai and police officers from his house but to date his relatives do not know where he is.
14 July 2011
Abel Samakande, the MDC Mutoko East district chairperson and Steven Zenda, the Mutoko East District Organising Secretary have been hospitalised after they seriously assaulted by Zanu PF thugs at Mbare Musika, Harare.
15 July 2011
Assistant Inspector Tedious Chisango is fired from the police force on allegations of playing a popular MDC song, Simudza Ngerengere, by MP Paul Madzore.
15 July 2011
Journalists, Nqobani Ndlovu, from the Standard, Pindai Dube, the Daily News, Pamenus Tuso and Oscar Nkala are arrested for covering the story of a police officer who was evicted for playing MDC songs.
16 July 2011
Visibly drunk rogue soldiers 4-2 Infantry battalion in Gutu, Masvingo go on a rampage and beat up patrons at Big Wave night club. A patron broke an arm and had to seek medical attention in Masvingo Town.
16 July 2011
Councillor Francisca Ncube of Ward 10 Hwange, Matebeleland North is arrested for organising a resident’s meeting.
03 August 2011
Ayaya Kassim, an MDC Youth Assembly chairperson for Ward 11 in Mbare, Harare is hospitalised after some known Zanu PF youths in the area poured hot cooking oil in his face.
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