Itai Dzamara – AIWA! NO!

victim of enforced disappearance

March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 Crimson Tazvinzwa

Zimbabwe Attacks E.U for Urging Mnangagwa Government to ‘Shed Light’ on Itai Dzamara’s Abduction

On the morning of March 9, in front of a Harare neighborhood barbershop, five men in civilian clothes abducted journalist and activist Itai Dzamara. He was handcuffed, bundled into a white truck with no visible license plates, and has not been seen since. He has disappeared, leaving a wife and two young children behind to grieve and demand he be brought home. Dzamara is increasingly well known as the leader of the Occupy Africa Unity Square Movement (OAUS), named after African Unity Square, a park in central Harare. Last October he called in writing for President Robert Mugabe to resign, with his replacement chosen in free and fair elections. One month later, he was beaten unconscious by anti-riot police, resulting in admittance to the intensive care unit of a local hospital. Three weeks later, four other members of OAUS were detained after a peaceful protest in the speaker’s gallery of the national Parliament. They were severely beaten over a six-hour period at a police station. Lawyers were not allowed to see the men, whom the police denied holding in the first place. They were released after being ordered to stop all demonstrations and to tell no one of their detention.

February 3, 2020February 4, 2020 Crimson Tazvinzwa

ZIMBABWE JOURNALIST AND ACTIVIST Itai Dzamara DISAPPEARED 3 YEARS AGO – 2017; NO STATE INVESTIGATIONS WERE EVER CONDUCTED