{"id":426483,"date":"2011-05-19T01:52:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/19\/freed-journalist-recounts-ordeal-at-police-station\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:52:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:52:35","slug":"freed-journalist-recounts-ordeal-at-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/19\/freed-journalist-recounts-ordeal-at-police-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Freed Journalist Recounts Ordeal At Police Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"36.479281768\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swradioafrica.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SW Radio Africa<\/a> (London)<\/p>\n<p>18 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Mziwandile Ndlovu, a journalist with the Bulawayo-based Weekly Agenda, has described how he was smacked and threatened by police while in custody last week. Ndlovu was charged with writing a fictitious story under the notorious Section 31 of the Criminal Law Codification Act.<\/p>\n<p>Ndlovu&#8217;s ordeal started last week Monday when he was told to report to Lupane police station for questioning regarding a story he had written in April. His story was in connection with a National Healing meeting in Victoria Falls, which had to be cancelled after speakers Vice-President John Nkomo and Sekai Holland, Minister of State in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, failed to turn up and National Healing Minister Moses<\/p>\n<p>Mzila-Ndlovu was arrested in Hwange on his way to the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>When Mziwandile arrived at the police station, he was held overnight and then transferred to Hwange, where he was grilled by the police there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was told they were deliberately keeping me in Hwange so that my lawyers would not have access to me. And should my lawyers know that I am in Hwange, they would further transfer me to another police station until I&#8217;d be taken to court,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was pushed from one officer to another. I was interrogated by some people there. They tried to force me to sign a warned and cautioned statement, and I was also threatened with being harassed at night,&#8221; Ndlovu said, &#8220;but my lawyers had informed me I should not sign that in the absence of a lawyer and I refused. I was then assaulted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He eventually saw his lawyers on Wednesday and was released on bail the same day.<\/p>\n<p>He says the ill-treatment by the police shows ZANU PF is in fear and panic, and knows it&#8217;s on its way out. &#8220;These are the last days of a dying horse,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105190099.html\" title=\"Freed Journalist Recounts Ordeal At Police Station\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Freed Journalist Recounts Ordeal At Police Station<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> SW Radio Africa (London) 18 May 2011 Mziwandile Ndlovu, a journalist with the Bulawayo-based Weekly Agenda, has described how he was smacked and threatened by police while in custody last week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":426478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-426483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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