MDC Alliance MP for Budiriro, Costa Machingauta has been charged with public violence following protests that rocked Harare. Machingau...
MDC Alliance MP for Budiriro, Costa Machingauta has been
charged with public violence following protests that rocked Harare.
Machingauta, who is represented by Tarisai Mutangi of
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights was summoned to report at Law and Order
Section at Harare Central Police Station, where he was charged with public
violence as defined section 36 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform)
Act.
ZRP officers alleged that Machingauta engaged in acts of
violence in Harare’s Central Business District on Wednesday 01 August 2018
together with some MDC Alliance supporters during a demonstration held on
Wednesday 01 August 2018 in the capital city to protest against the Zimbabwe
Electoral Commission’s management of the harmonised elections held on Monday 30
July 2018, which reportedly resulted in the destruction of property and left
six people dead after they were shot by some members of the Zimbabwe Defence
Forces.
Machingauta becomes the 32nd person to be charged with
committing public violence during the elections protest.
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