Two year old Nigel Mutemagau, reacts after being released into care in Harare, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. Mutemagau was held for weeks with his parents in what the Zimbabwean opposition calls a crackdown on dissent, a lawyer said Wednesday. The boy's parents, opposition party members Collen Mutemagau and Violet Mupfuranhehwe, are accused in a plot to overthrow President Robert Mugabe. They were in court for a hearing Wednesday, appearing without Nigel in their arms for the first time since they were detained.
Toddler freed in Zimbabwe after 76 days in prison.
A two-year-old boy detained in a Zimbabwean prison with his activist parents has been freed after 76 days behind bars, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said Wednesday in a statement.
Nigel Mutemagawo, who was abducted by gunmen together with his parents from their home in Banket in northwestern Zimbabwe, was released from detention on Tuesday, the MDC said.
He had been held with his parents, Collen Mutemagawo and Violet Mupfuranhehwe, both MDC activists who are facing terorrism charges.
A Zimbabwe court on Friday refused to drop the charges against his parents and five others.
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ZIMBABWE Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko is being held in solitary confinement in Harare’s Chikurubi maximum security prison.
Mukoko and several other members of the main opposition MDC are accused of recruiting people for an armed insurgency to topple President Robert Mugabe. Prison sources said this week that Mukoko was being held in a section reserved for hardcore criminals.
“We have a women’s section, but she has been placed in the tougher section that normally houses men,” said a warder.
Mukoko, who has asked the Supreme Court to release her from “unlawful detention”, is said to be depressed.
The Zimbabwean attorney-general, Johannes Tomana, said earlier this week that Mukoko was a threat to Zimbabwe and her continued detention was justified.
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