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The commemorations, which once stood out as a second Christmas for several Zimbabweans about two decades ago are now a distant, fading memory – with a huge part of the population under 20 years only getting to know such a Zimbabwe once existed through tales.
In Mutare, a former soldier who spent the last two years fighting false accusations of calling President Robert Mugabe a thief and a foreigner recently walked free in a case that exposed that cops fabricate charges to fix human rights defenders.
Magistrate Sekesai Chiundura acquitted Naison Chivandire last week after the State, whose witnesses were inconsistent in court, failed to prove a *prima facie* case against him. Crucially, the case exposed disturbing police conduct as well as the lengths to which cops can go to concoct charges in order to fix members of the public who stand up for human rights.
In another article, human rights lawyers and tormented members of the judiciary in Zimbabwe continue to receive global support with the Bar Council, one of the most influential legal organisations globally and which represents barristers in England and Wales passing a resolution to support the rights of lawyers in Zimbabwe to practise freely and fairly, and to promote the independence of the country’s judiciary. The resolution came as lawyers and members of the Judiciary are under attack from State agents while Zimbabwe drifts towards a watershed election which is being closely watched by the world.
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