MRP Youths Demand Return Of Activists Transferred To Chikurubi Prison
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has given the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) four days to return nine party members from Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare back to Khami Maximum Prison where they were jailed.
During this week, ZPCS transferred the nine MRP activists from Khami to the notorious Chikurubi and Gwanda prisons.
The activists were convicted of public violence in June this year and seven of them are serving 33 months each in prison while the other two were jailed for 36 months each.
Addressing journalists at the Bulawayo Media Centre on Thursday, MRP’s Youth League Chairperson, Mudenda Chilumbo, threatened to camp outside the Bulawayo High Court in protest until the activists are returned. Said Chilumbo:
MRP wishes to put it with clarity, authority and conviction that the systematic and political mechanisms of Emmerson Mnangagwa of taking political prisoners from Matabeleland to Harare to kill them is unbecoming, barbaric and unheard of and shall be resisted with equal measure.
… From today (Thursday), Mnangagwa and his cronies must provide credible and constitutional justice to our members without failure.
If they are not prepared to concede to our demands, as MRP family we are prepared to die for our independence, freedom and justice and from day one, we will gather at Bulawayo High Court, day in, day out demanding the release of our innocent members.
The MRP activists were convicted for public violence after they stormed Bulawayo Central Police station in 2021 protesting what they considered a failed abduction of party leader Mqondisi Moyo by state security agents. | CITE
