Zimbabwean prize-winning novelist gets suspended sentence, fine for protest

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Prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga was found guilty of staging an anti-government protest and received a six-month suspended jail sentence and a fine, a court ruled on Thursday.

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Dangarembga and her co-accused Julie Barnes, who was also found guilty, were charged with participating in a public gathering with intent to incite public violence while breaking Covid-19 protocols when they staged a protest in July 2020.

A fierce critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government who has been fighting for years against corruption and demanding reforms, Dangarembga maintained during the trial that Zimbabweans have the right to demonstrate. Their lawyer Chris Mhike said Dangarembga and Barnes were first-time offenders and asked for leniency.

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