A report claims ZRP cops have arrested civil and political rights activists currently staging a 16 day and night protest demanding for the restoration of the rule of law and the economy in Africa Unity Square.
Those who were reportedly arrested and are said to be detained at Harare central police station are Itai Dzamara’s young brother Patson, Makomborero Haruzivishe, Pride Mkono , Oliver Chikumba, and Tatenda Mombeyarara .
Linda Masarira, the spokesperson of the coalition of youth organisations staging the historic demonstration where they are also demanding for the safe return of the abducted human rights activist Itai Dzamara, said that her male counterparts were nabbed in the early hours of Thursday after the police had earlier attempted to disperse them.
“At exactly 23:30 pm three police officers tried to disperse us and we told them they had no constitutional right to disperse us. After 20minutes of heated argument with the police officers they walked away,” said Masarira.
“At exactly midnight two women showed up walking towards us from the corner Third Street and Jason Moyo Avenue and as they approached us I noticed that they were wearing the same hats black and white striped hats, carrying Tshangani bags. They passed us and stopped 10m away and inquired where 4th street was purporting to have disembarked a Kombi from Murehwa. I told them to go where they were going as we were aware of their intentions,” she said.
Masarira said the women who had asked them the directions were the same who claimed that they had been robbed by her colleagues, who had not even moved from “our gathering”.
“The two women came back running screaming mbavha mbavha (thieves thieves). We just watched them as they ran past us. Instead of going straight to Jason Moyo they cut across the park into the dark and we saw three policemen jumping from the hedge. The women accused Patson Dzamara and Makomborero Haruzivishe as the men who followed them and took their filthy, torn Tshangani bags,”she narrated.
She said  “we” see this as a ploy by the state security agents to frustrate “our” demonstration.
“We are not stupid. We will not be abused. We are sick and tired of a partisan police force that serves the interest of ZANU PF. These stage managed shows show that this government has ran out of ideas,” she said.