Petitioners ramp up pressure for Sikhala’s release

PETITIONERS, who want an end to the lengthy incarceration of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole, have called for “urgent action” to rope in international stakeholders to secure their freedom.

About 55 000 Zimbabweans locally and abroad two months ago petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeking his intervention to end the “political” persecution of Sikhala, Sithole and 13 other party activists from Nyatsime. They were arrested after violence broke out in Nyatsime following the murder of CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.

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