Thread by @povonewstv

Reposting all accounts of #Zimbabwe police brutality during the #ZimbabweShutDown protest under this thread

Check this thread for #shutdownZimbabwe updates from Monday-Wednesday goo.gl/sAzR4T

5 children below the age of 13 are appearing at the Bulawayo Magistrates Court today over the #ZimbabweShutDown protest violence

#Zimbabwe

Dominic Maunze was mauled by #Zimbabwe police dogs when he was arrested during the #ZimbabweShutDown protest

Appeared before Bulawayo Magistrate Lungile Ncube who ordered police to get him medical assistance due to the severity of his injuries

#shutdownZimbabwe

The Finance Officer for @citezw was assaulted by soldiers earlier today in Emganwini, Bulawayo & phone formatted. #ZimbabweShutDown

@DevourIan recounts how armed youths (iron bars, machetes, axes & logs) beat up people in Warren Park accusing them of supporting MDC

Broke into home, threatened to kill them, smashed TV & took pregnant wife's phone. Hit another guy with iron bar on the head. Then next home same

#Zimbabwe soldiers invade school, beat up teachers & students flee

#ZimbabweShutDown

Some of the towns/cities/suburbs @ZLHRLawyers deployed lawyers to represent residents arrested during #ZimbabweShutDown protest

*Epworth, Mabvuku, Hatcliffe, Mabvuku, Bulawayo, Masvingo, Jerera, Mvurwi, Guruve, Tshabalala, Magwegwe, Luveve & Harare

#Zimbabwe

A significant number of minors were arrested during the #ZimbabweShutDown protests (some together with their parents)

*Wednesday: 6 juveniles released after intervention by @ZLHRLawyers
*Many still detained in Harare (at least 10), Bulawayo (5 below 13) + others

#Zimbabwe

#Zimbabwe police are raiding medical facilities looking for victms of their own brutality so that they can arrest them

Significant number of victims now fearing to get treatment for injuries because of possibility of being arrested

#ZimabweShutDown

@PhylPhiri recounts a shoot out between a civilian & a police officer on Tuesday morning in Bulawayo. Both died.

#Zimbabwe #ZimbabweShutDown

@thestandardzim links the man seen with AK47 in Kuwadzana on Monday w #Zimbabwe security forces

*Rifle synonymous with govt issued weapons
*Man is seen near police truck suggesting familiarity
*Travelled in Nissan NP300 reg ABV2127 w uniformed officers

#ZimbabweShutDown

#Zimbabwe's activist pastor Evan Mawarire charged with treason for calling for a stay-away protest themed #ZimbabweShutDown

In 2016 Mawarire was arrested & later acquited for the same offence under ex-president Mugabe whilst current President Mnangagwa was VP & Justice Minister

Armed #Zimbabwe police officer at PicknPay in Bulawayo today

@zenzele One person died at Western Commonage in Bulawayo after inhaling teargas smoke on Monday at the start of the #ZimbabweShutDown protest

#Zimbabwe

#Zimbabwe police point gun at journalist Zenzele Ndebele as he was filming the unfolding #ShutdownZimbabwe protest in Nkulumane, Bulawayo on Monday

#ZimShutdown

Another victim of #Zimbabwe police shooting during the #ZimbabweShutDown protest

https://twitter.com/povonewstv/status/1085113524991467525

#Zimbabwe security forces brutalizing residents in townships

#ZimbabweShutDown #shutdownZimbabwe

Another victim of police shooting at Makoni police station in Chitungwiza #Zimbabwe during the #ZimbabweShutDown protest

https://twitter.com/povonewstv/status/1085389475860148224

#Zimbabwe police shot Mthwakazi party member Henry Dube in the head at his home in front of his children at Cowdry Park in Bulawayo on Monday

#Zimshutdown #shutdownZimbabwe #ShutDownZim

Suspected #Zimbabwe intelligence operative shooting at protestors

#Zimshutdown #shutdownZimbabwe #ShutDownZim

Victim of police shooting in #Zimbabwe during #ZimbabweShutDown protest in Bulawayo (seems it's the same victim highlighted by @zenzele )

https://twitter.com/povonewstv/status/1084976177675005953

@zppinfo Reported that #Zimbabwe soldiers beat up citizens & forced all males to roll in mud at Glenview 3 shops in Harare on Monday during the #ZimbabweShutDown protest

Victims of #Zimbabwe security forces brutality during the #ZimbabweShutDown protests

@xMaryke Recounts how her 27-year cousin was shot by #Zimbabwe soldiers during the #ZimbabweShutDown protest on Tuesday. Left behind a wife & child

https://twitter.com/xMaryke/status/1085270583175188480

Suspected Zanu PF vigilante group in an unmarked truck in Harare during the #ZimbabweShutDown protest in Zimbabwe

Young Zimbabwean boy explains how #Zimbabwe security forces (soldiers &/or police) beat up people & forced people them to roll in mud

#Zimbabwe security forces wearing masks dragged people out of their homes & beat them up in Arcturus just outside of Harare on Wednesday

#ZimbabweAtrocities #ZimbabweShutDown

**File picture**

The #Zimbabwe govt is denying Rural Teachers Union Secretary General, Robson Chere the right to have a bail application in court.

They want to proceed to trial & sentencing. Many people have suffered the same fate.

#ZimbabweAtrocities

60 people were moved from Chikurubi Maximum prison to Rotten Row Magistrates court in Harare earlier today.

Cases being fast-tracked to sentencing denying them their constitutional right to administrative justice. Many others in a similar situation

#Zimbabwe #ZimbabweAtrocities

Zanu PF militia armed with stones, fan belts, sticks & rods traveling in 5 cars with no plates went about house-by-house beating people in Street 135, Warren Park (Harare). Destroyed furniture & cars windows. Whipped fathers as the family watched

#Zimbabwe #ZimbabweAtrocities

Young men abducted from their homes on Tuesday night in Harare by masked men in plain clothes carrying AK47's

Beaten up with baton sticks & rifle butts then bundled into the back of trucks & left at Harare Central police station 👇👇👇👇

#ZimbabweAtrocities

#Zimbabwe security forces beat up the neighbor of opposition mp Happymore Chidziva around 3am Thursday morning after failing to find the MDC youth leader #ZimbabweAtrocities

#Zimbabwe soldiers have just abducted Hildah Mahiya the 63-year-old mother of civil society leader Rashid Mahiya from her Unit K home in Chitungwiza after failing to find the son, Rashid

Patricia Kamuriwo the lady who was shot by #Zimbabwe police on Monday says she is alive & on her way to recovery

#Zimbabwe police shot off this young man's finger during the #ZimbabweShutDown protest

#Zimbabwe soldiers beating & forcing Norton residents to roll in mud - 15 January 2019

Victims of state-sponsored violence in #Zimbabwe during the #ZimbabweShutDown protest

#Zimbabwe security forces who abducted Rashid Mahiya's 63-year-old mother have assaulted & arrested his brother Doug Mahiya Jnr as ransom to force Rashid Mahiya to come out of hiding

The #leader of #Zimbabwe's rural teachers union Obert Masaraure has just been abducted by security forces from his home in front of his wife