Police on Friday arrested Matabeleland South farmer David Connolly, a week after the Bulawayo High Court ruled that a senior official in President Robert Mugabe’s office was in contempt of court for pushing him out of his farm.
Connolly’s lawyer, Josphat Tshuma, who accompanied the farmer to Plumtree, blasted the police, describing their action as “unacceptable.
SADC Tribunal Rights Watch chairperson Ben Freeth accused police of being partisan.
“In the lawless, upside down world of justice in Zimbabwe, summoning a farmer to a police station for contempt of court when a ruling has been handed down in his favour – and on a Friday afternoon when the courts are closed – is typical of the modus operandi of the partisan police force,” Freeth said…
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