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Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n

Police have arrested Movement for Democratic Change Alliance Youth Assembly chairperson, Obey Sithole, for allegedly participating in a gathering to instigate public violence.<\/p>\n

In a statement, MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere said Sithole \u201cis charged under Section 7 of the Criminal Code which related to participating in a gathering with intent to promote public violence, for breaching Section 5 of Statutory Instrument 99\/2020 (the COVID19 Regulations) which prohibit public gatherings that exceed 50 people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mahere said Sithole\u2019s arrest \u201cis yet another in the growing list of coordinated, trumped up charges against the MDC Alliance and its affiliates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa Press-Nigeria: Police have arrested Movement for Democratic Change Alliance Youth Assembly chairperson, Obey Sithole, for allegedly participating in a gathering to instigate public violence. In a statement, MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere said Sithole \u201cis charged under Section 7 of the Criminal Code which related to participating in a gathering with intent to promote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[88,701],"class_list":{"0":"post-23878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-parties","9":"tag-mdc","10":"tag-sithole"},"yoast_head":"\nZimbabwe Police Arrest MDC Alliance Youth Leader - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Police have arrested Movement for Democratic Change Alliance Youth Assembly chairperson, Obey Sithole, for allegedly participating in a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-police-arrest-mdc-alliance-youth-leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zimbabwe Police Arrest MDC Alliance Youth Leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Police have arrested Movement for Democratic Change Alliance Youth Assembly chairperson, Obey Sithole, for allegedly participating in a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-police-arrest-mdc-alliance-youth-leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-03T13:50:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/MDC-Obey-Sithole.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-police-arrest-mdc-alliance-youth-leader\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-police-arrest-mdc-alliance-youth-leader\",\"name\":\"Zimbabwe Police Arrest MDC Alliance Youth Leader - 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