Saturday, July 19, 2008

Free but not free

I may have been removed from remand on July 14 together with 13 MDC activists on spurious charges but I continue to recieve threats from the state machinery. I now fear for my life.

Zimbabwe is my country, mine and for us all. I have nowhere to run to. But I believe everything has an ending.

Free at last

A Harare magistrate removed me from remand together with 13 MDC activists on July 14 after the state failed to kickstart the trial for the fifth time.

This means the state will now have to proceed by way of summons , if it's necessary at all.

Armed policemen and state security agents arrested me April 15 and concocted charges of public violence against me and MDC activists in order to justify a crackdown on the opposition parties and undermine press freedom.

I was in the line of my journalistic duties when I was nabbed.