By Own Correspondent| Zimbabwe Youth Alliance chairman Kumbirai Learnmore Magorimbo was abducted and brutally tortured by state agents before being thrown into Chikurubi maximum prison, ZimEye has learnt.

Magorimbo joins several other civil society leaders, opposition members and civilians who have borne the brunt of state sponsored violence and incarceration following last week’s protests over the deteriorating economic situation in the country triggered by the fuel price increases.

State security minister Owen Ncube is on record attributing the violence and “acts of terror” which rocked the nation to opposition stalwarts accusing them of working in carhoots with civil society organisations.

Ncube said government treated the protests against fuel price increases and the violence and looting which ensured thereafter as treason.

Unconfirmed reports by civic organisations allege that over 12 people have died since day 1 of the #ShutdownZimbabwe protest but government confirms that only 5 people died.

State security agents on the other hand have since the protests been abducting and torturing opposition, civil society leaders and civilians some in the dead of the night and throwing them behind bars in a development which replicates the former president Robert Mugabe era.

Following his arrival from his aborted international trip, President Emmerson Mnangagwa appreciated the “calm and peace” in the country ignoring reports of the gross human rights violations against citizens by security agents.

He promised that investigations will be conducted regarding what transpired in the country during his absence and “heads will roll” in a development which has been described by analysts as mere rhetoric considering the presence and continued abduction, torture and incarceration of opposition supporters, civil society leaders and civilians at the hands of state security agents.