Justice system needs urgent overhaul

ON July 31, three human right activists Robson Chere, Namatai Kwekweza and Samuel Gwenzi, as well as Vusumuzi Moyo, an artist and sound engineer, were forcibly removed from a domestic commercial flight at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.

They were held incommunicado by State agents for at least eight hours before being handed over to the police.

On August 2, they were brought before a magistrate for remand hearing, charged with disorderly conduct at a gathering held some days earlier outside the Harare Magistrates Court.

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