Harare West MP Joana Mamombe and two other MDC Alliance activists are still traumatised to speak to the police about their ordeal. Nor...
Harare West MP Joana Mamombe and two other MDC Alliance
activists are still traumatised to speak to the police about their ordeal.
Norman Matara from the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for
Human Rights said “We are working with the police. I cannot disclose anything
about the extent of injury on the ladies because they are still not physically
and emotionally fit to give a statement to the police.”
Jeremiah Bhamu from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights told the Standard that they would only know the next step for the women after they had recovered.
“I will know of the next course of action once the three
are in a stable condition. But first, we want to know the truth about what happened
to them.”
He said it was difficult to expect the police to carry out
professional investigations into the matter.
“There are already indications that the police are
compromised. Hoping them to be fair would be asking for too much from them.
Some of them might want, but there might be superior forces blocking them from
acting impartially.”
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