Pambazuka News

Lawyers, journalists and trade unionists targeted in crackdown

2008-05-08

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One of the country’s top lawyers, Harrison Nkomo, was arrested by police on Wednesday for allegedly insulting Robert Mugabe. Nkomo who was representing arrested freelance journalist Frank Chikowore at the High Court, is alleged to have told Michael Mugabe, a law officer in the Attorney General’s office, to ‘go and tell your father that he must vacate office because he has failed.’