[Marxism] Zim arrests update

[glparramatta <glparramatta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ACTION UPDATE: 115 ZIMBABWE COMRADES ARRESTED

PLEASE CALL CENTRAL HARARE POLICE STATION +263 4 777 777 to demand
the immediate release of of 115 activists, including women with
children on their backs, arrested on Tuesday 8 November  for
demonstrating against poverty, hunger and the trampling of workers'
rights un Zimbabwe. Other numbers: +263 4 724 668, + 263 4 721 212 +
263 4 736 931, +263 4 725 803.

Please fax +263 4 771 420

Munyaradzi Gwisai  and Briggs Bomba of the ISO Zimbabwe and others
have been taken to another police station, whereabouts unknown.

But please call the number(s), and fax, above as soon as possible.

Correction to the information below: the NCA members  still
incarcerated were arrested on Saturday 5 November.

Judith Amanthis
African Liberation Support Campaign Network, London


> > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:09:30 +0000
> > To: jamanthis
> > From: judith amanthis <jamanthis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: ZIMBABWE COMRADES ARRESTED
> > Cc:
> > Bcc:
> > X-Attachments:
> >
> > ONE HUNDRED DEMONSTRATORS ARRESTED TODAY TUESDAY 8 NOVEMBER BY THE
> > ZIMBABWEAN AUTHORITIES
> >
> > The Independent Zimbabwe Campaign, which ALISC Network supports, has
> > received news of a critical situation in Zimbabwe.
> >
> > The Zimbabwe trade union movement, headed by the ZCTU (Zimbabwe
> > Congress of Trade Unions), called a demonstration today, Tuesday 8
> > November, against  the POVERTY and HUNGER the majority of
> > Zimbabweans face right now.
> >
> > Trade unionists in their thousands, including other opposition
> > groups - WOMEN OF ZIMBABWE ARISE (WOZA),the  NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL
> > ASSEMBLY (NCA), and the INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANISATION
> > (ISO-Zimbabwe) - congregated in central Harare. The police sealed
> > off the area and prevented them from marching to the government
> > offices.  The police, mainly picking off leaders prominent, then
> > arrested ONE HUNDRED people, and took them to the Harare Central
> > Police Station. They were charged under the Public Order and
> > Security Act (POSA), notorious for preventing people from protesting
> > against violations of workers' and human rights. NCA members have
> > been in detention for some weeks already. Today's arrested people
> > have been put in the same cells as the NCA members.
> >
> > The three comrades from the International Socialist Organisation
> > arrested are: Munyaradzi Gwisai, Briggs Bomba and  Kasikai.
> >
> > People today have been uprising in other towns and cities. In Gweru,
> > one of Zimbabwe's largest towns, a regiment of the National Army
> > mutinied and joined demonstrators. The whole regiment was sacked
>
>
> from their jobs and was arrested.

> > In Bulawayo, the second largest city, ZCTU officials were arrested.
> > Also women from WOZA in Bulawayo and Harare have been arrested.
> >
> > GWISAI, BOMBA  and KASIKAI are due in court on Thursday 10 November,
> > when the court should decide whether to grant them bail or to detain
> > them in custody until their trial for POSA offences commences. If
> > they get bail, the cost will be enormous.
> >
> > Today AT 8.30pm, the Independent Zimbabwe Campaign was informed that
> > the 100 arrested demonstrators have been moved to an unknown police
> > station outside Harare.


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