When a colour becomes criminal

AT the weekend, a video emerged of a police officer in uniform beating up a man for wearing a yellow T-shirt.

The unnamed person, was being held on the ground by a couple when the policeman, in full riot gear, rushed up and whacked him on the head and ran off.

Last week on Thursday police in Harare arrested five opposition activists and a pedestrian, allegedly for public nuisance.

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