Court grants bail to 3 MDC officials who were ‘abducted & tortured’

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HARARE - A High Court judge in Zimbabwe has granted bail with strict conditions to three Movement for Democratic Change officials, including a member of Parliament, who were arrested earlier this mon

th.

The three were abducted and tortured in May, but the government claims the three faked their disappearance and arrested them. The three women - Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova - were all ordered to stay at their homes, and not speak to the media or use social media.Their arrest shocked many in the country, coming as it did after they alleged they were in fact victims abducted from a police station in May, held incommunicado for two days and tortured.

The authorities accuse them of making a false report and of trying to discredit President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government.

 

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