{"id":5630,"date":"2015-03-22T02:58:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T19:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2015-03-22T02:58:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T19:58:38","slug":"lawless-upside-down-world-of-justice-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/lawless-upside-down-world-of-justice-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawless, upside down world of justice in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s office was in contempt of court for pushing him out of his farm.<\/p>\n<p>Connolly\u2019s lawyer, Josphat Tshuma, who accompanied the farmer to Plumtree, blasted the police, describing their action as \u201cunacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>SADC Tribunal Rights Watch chairperson Ben Freeth accused police of being partisan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 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 \u2013 and on a Friday afternoon when the courts are closed \u2013 is typical of the modus operandi of the partisan police force,\u201d Freeth said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southerneye.co.zw\/2015\/03\/20\/mugabe-aide-turns-tables-farmer-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s office was in contempt of court for pushing him out of his farm. Connolly\u2019s lawyer, Josphat Tshuma, who accompanied the farmer to Plumtree, blasted the police, describing their action as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,4489,3690,4488,2997,427,257,4490,1412,3138,254,4693,4686,421],"class_list":["post-5630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bulawayo-high-court","tag-david-connolly","tag-justice-in-zimbabwe","tag-matabeleland-south","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-plumtree","tag-sadc","tag-sadc-tribunal-rights-watch","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}