Reuters Journalist Sabure Arrested
Reporting by SWRadio Africa
Additional Reporting by ZimJournalists Arise
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A Reuters cameraman Mike Sabure was beaten and arrested in Harare while covering the protest marches organised by the Zimbabwe
Congress of Trade Unions, Wednesday.

Freelance journalist Gift Phiri said Sabure was filming the police beating people when policeofficers wielding metre long baton sticks started beating him up. Phiri said the Reuters cameraman tried to show them his accreditation cardbut they kept assaulting him and bundled him into the police Defender truck.

Also arrested was Zimbabwe National Students Union President, Promise Mkwananzi. According to ZINASU, Mkwananzi was picked up at the UZ campus today for conniving with the ZCTU in demonstrating and being involved in last weekend's Mutare Students General Council Meeting.

He was arrested at the same time as civic leader RaymondMajongwe from the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, Grace Kwinjeh from the Tsvangirai MDC and several others. The group is being held together with the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) activists arrested on Monday. The 107 WOZA women were arrested whilst trying toprotest at Town House at the shocking service delivery experienced in the capital.

One of the women arrested was rushed to Parirenyatwa hospital Tuesday to give birth after she went into labour in police custody. Six more WOZA were arrested alongside ZCTU protesters in Bulawayo on Wednesday.