Patson Dzamara (above) was among those arrested
Lawyers for the protestors said the helper had asked not to be identified.
The activists include Patson Dzamara, bother of the missing journalist-cum human rights campaigner Itai Dzamara who was abducted in March 2015 by suspected state security agents for demonstrating against Mugabe.
They were arrested last week at Harare’s Africa Unity Square as they staged a 16-day protest against human rights abuses by the government.
Prosecutors allege that the activists robbed two women who were passing by the park in the early hours of Thursday last week.
They appeared before the courts last Saturday where they were ordered to pay $1000 bail each; a sum only three of the group managed to raise.
This week the activists’ attorneys appealed for the bail amount to be cut and the courts reduced it by almost half on Thursday.
One the activists’ lawyers, Obey Shava, told NewZimbabwe.com in Harare Friday that a “good Samaritan†paid bail for all the demonstrators.
“Unexpectedly, God has sent a Good Samaritan to bail out my clients and right now I have the cash with me and I am rushing to the magistrates’ courts to pay the bail money.
“Today, I mean now, now they (activists) can sing free at last,†Shava said without disclosing the “unexpected†source of the cash.
The attorney said the “good Samaritan†requested not to be identified.
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