Mugabe arrests opponents being air evacuated to SA hospital

Sekai Holland in her hospital bed.


The second photo is Grace Kwinje's bruses.

These women were prevented from being evacuated by air
ambulance to South Africa

The Photos are from Zimfinalpushblog...

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Arthur Mutambara, head of a faction of the Zimbabwean opposition group Movement for Democratic Change, was arrested at Harare International Airport as he was trying to leave for South Africa, said Roy Bennett, the movement‘s exiled treasurer-general.

"We are not sure why they were arrested. Tensions are very high," Bennett said.

He said the ambulance carrying the women from a clinic in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, to the airport, where they were to leave in a medical rescue aircraft, was stopped on the tarmac by officers from Zimbabwe‘s security forces.

"That the Zimbabwean government now resorts to arresting people in ambulances in clear need of specialist care, is an indication of the repressive lengths they‘re prepared to go," said Mutasah, adding lawyers for the women were trying to get a court order to allow them to receive treatment...."

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Furthur information is found here

....Arthur Mutambara, head of a faction of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change, was arrested by police at Harare International Airport as he was leaving for South Africa, said Roy Bennett, the movement's exiled treasurer-general.

Also arrested in a separate incident were Grace Kwinje and Sekai Holland, who were to receive specialized medical treatment in South Africa, he said....

The women's passports were taken and they were told they needed a clearance certificate from the Department of Health. They were then instructed to go to Harare's central police station but were later allowed to return to the clinic under police guard.

"That the Zimbabwean government now resorts to arresting people in ambulances in clear need of specialist care, is an indication of the repressive lengths they're prepared to go," said Mutasah, adding that lawyers for the women were trying to get a court order to allow them to receive treatment.

Bennett also said that, according to reports from Harare, police took the body of Gift Tandare, an activist shot dead by police, and performed their own burial.

Tandare's father was forced to release his son's body into police custody while family were preparing for the funeral, he said.

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