Persecution of Tsvangirai's Aide Continues

Political repression in Zimbabwe is continuing amid revelations that President Robert Mugabe's administration is using the state machinery to abuse critics of his government.
Movement for Democratic Change activists have been on the receiving end as the Zanu PF government launched an onslaught on all critics of the sitting administration.
Apart from targeting the MDC as a political party, the regime has also put party leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his lieutenants as subjects of arrests and harassment. Not only are Tsvangirai and top MDC officials are subject of victimization in Zimbabwe but ordinary people suspected to have links with the opposition party.
Some MDC activists in Mutare were accused of possessing arms of war ostensibly to remove Mugabe's government.
Like Tsvangirai who was accused and later acquitted of planning to eliminate Mugabe using a Canadian firm led by Ari Ben Menashe of Dickens and Madison, the late Zanu Ndonga leader, Ndabaningi Sithole, was also accused of plotting to assassinate Mugabe.
One of Tsvangirai's aides, Sunganai Gwezere, was incarcerated by Harare authorities for allegedly possessing an unlicensed fire-arm in the run up to the June 2000 parliamentary polls. He was convicted by a Harare magistrate and jailed for five years. However, Gwezere appealed in the High Court which grant his application for release. The High Court ordered him to report every Friday at the Criminal Investigations Department Law and Order Section at Harare Central Police Station while awaiting judgement.
The High Court later upheld the decision of the Magistrates Court prompting him to challenge both his conviction and sentence in the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, Gwezere says his case has taken too long to be finalised.
"I am now sick and tired of reporting every week to the police. This treatment is very degrading and I am traumatised. The police always harass me when I go to report to them every week", said Gwezere.