{"id":13757,"date":"2019-09-18T20:03:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=13757"},"modified":"2019-09-18T20:03:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T18:03:48","slug":"zimbabwe-police-block-doctors-march-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-police-block-doctors-march-to-parliament","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe police block doctors\u2019 march to parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean police on Wednesday blocked hundreds of doctors from marching to parliament in the capital Harare.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors were protesting the alleged abduction of Dr. Peter Magombeyi, head of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA).<\/p>\n<p>Anti-riot police wielding baton sticks and tear gas canisters created a human barricade, blocking the road that doctors intended to use from Parirenyatwa Hospital to parliament building.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Learnmore Shoti, chairman of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association in Parirenyatwa Hospital, doctors intended to submit a petition to parliament for the release of Magombeyi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were marching to parliament to hand over a petition, but the police have blocked us saying we have to give them seven-day notice,\u201d Shoti said.<\/p>\n<p>Harry, Magoimbeyi\u2019s father said: \u201cWe are traumatized as a family, we don\u2019t even know whether our son is still alive or dead, we don\u2019t know what is happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we wish to thank all the doctors for the support and prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Magombeyi went missing, all major hospitals throughout the country shut down in solidarity with the family.<\/p>\n<p>This came at a time when Clement Nyaletsossi, a UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, is in the country on a 10-day mission to investigate alleged human rights abuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean police on Wednesday blocked hundreds of doctors from marching to parliament in the capital Harare. 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