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#Zimbabwe-an prison authorities today ignored a doctor’s request that #HopewellChinono be held in isolation & should not appear in remand court pending his #COVID_19 test results. They ferried him to court regardless & the state failed to give a trial date as promised.
#HopewellChinino will appear in remand court again on Sept 14, with the state promising that it will supply a trial date then. His lawyer @DougColtart says that prison authorities lied to Hopewell claiming his doctor was there to see him & instead forced him into the prison van.
#HopewellChinono protested & repeated what his doctor had told authorities the previous day. It fell on deaf ears. He was also taken to court without having taken his medication. This is the pattern of abuse that is all to familiar since Hopewell’s arrest more than a month ago.
PEN Africa Centres call for the immediate release of #TsitsiDangarembga who was arrested and detained yesterday. Pen Zimbabwe, @pen_southafrica PEN Malawi, PEN Uganda, @NadiaDavids9 @pen_nigeria @PenAfrikaans 
PEN Centres are greatly concerned by the arrest and detention of #TsitsiDangarembga whose work is widely known. @efie41209591 was arrested while peacefully protesting corruption in #Zimbabwe
She joins award-winning journalist #HopewellChinono as the latest high profile writer to be detained as Zimbabwean security agencies crack down on anti corruption demonstrators.
Strong open letter from a group of African writers to @AUC_MoussaFaki & @DrTaxs on the arrest of #Zimbabwe-an journalist #HopewellChinono & the continued silence of @_AfricanUnion and @SADCnews when citizens' rights are trampled upon by member states. theafricareport.com/35715/zimbabaw…
The letter states: "The African Union, an organisation that was quick to tell the world that #BlackLivesMatter in the wake of George Floyd’s murder & other human rights abuses by police in the United States, seems strangely silent about the violation of Black Lives in Africa."
They add: "We fear that as long as Zimbabwe continues to violate its citizens’ rights with impunity, we and fellow writers and journalists are in danger of having our rights violated in the different AU member states while the mother body stays silent."
