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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By Staff Reporter<\/b> – MDC ALLIANCE vice president Tendai Biti has accused the Emmerson Mnangagwa led government of deliberately imprisoning opponents and critics in Covid-19 infested jails to try and exterminate them through exposing them to the deadly pandemic.<\/p>\n

This comes after MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere has revealed testing positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n

The opposition activist, who faces communicating falsehoods charges, had been locked up at remand prison for seven days.<\/p>\n

She believes she contracted the pandemic during her incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.<\/p>\n

Mahere was Monday released on $10 000 bail and went straight to test for Covid-19 while claiming prison authorities were not enforcing prevention measures against inmates.<\/p>\n

In a twit on Wednesday, Biti said the government must take full responsibility for Mahere\u2019s Covid-19 status.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe regime must take full responsibility of Advocate Mahere\u2019s situation. It must take full responsibility of every Zimbabwean who has succumbed to Covid 19. misgovernance, cluelessness & recklessness are crimes against humanity,\u201d Biti said.<\/p>\n

Upon her release, Mahere complained of deplorable holding cells at Harare Central Police Station where she spent a night before she was taken to court.<\/p>\n

The activist was jailed together with party legislator Job Sikhala and journalist Hopewell Chin\u2019ono, who are both still in custody.<\/p>\n

The three all face the same charge of communicating falsehoods in a case involving a widely circulated video image erroneously linking a police officer to the murder of a baby while enforcing Covid-19 lockdown rules at a Harare bus stop.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Harare mayor and MDC Alliance official Jacob Mafume was recently released from remand prison where he had been languishing for nearly a month. He is accused of land corruption and bribery but denies both charges.<\/p>\n

Mafume\u2019s lawyers claim the city father was now in isolation after two cell mates recently succumbed to Covid-19.<\/p>\n

Student activist Allan Moyo has also been locked up at Harare Remand Prison for more than 40 days, charged with inciting public violence.<\/p>\n

Biti felt the targeting of party politicians for arrests and incarceration was all calculated to expose them to Covid-19 which continues to take many lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cZimbabwe prisons are imploding with Covid 19. Inmates were exposed to conditions that were degrading cruel & inhuman long before Covid 19. Covid 19 has exacerbated a desperate situation. By incarcerating activists, regime is intent on eliminating activists and every other inmate,\u201d said the Harare lawmaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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