{"id":28231,"date":"2020-09-28T19:48:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T17:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=28231"},"modified":"2020-09-28T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T17:48:21","slug":"mdc-alliance-dismisses-chamisa-arrest-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-dismisses-chamisa-arrest-claims","title":{"rendered":"MDC Alliance Dismisses Chamisa Arrest Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition MDC Alliance (MDC-A) on Monday dismissed social media claims that party president Nelson Chamisa had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Open Space had, without giving details, posted on microblogging site Twitter that Chamisa had been arrested. The post read, \u201cMDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa arrested. More to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a brief statement on its social media channels, the MDC Alliance dismissed the claims as fake news. The statement read:<\/p>\n<div class=\"bxwBmYfZ\">\n<blockquote><p>This [<em>the post by Open Space alleging that Chamisa has been arrested<\/em>] is fake news. Please don\u2019t spread this falsehood. It isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n<p>President N<span class=\"link-complex-target\">elson Chamisa<\/span>\u00a0has not been arrested. He is going about his normal MDC Alliance Party business and meetings. We request journalists to exercise responsible and ethical journalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes after youths aligned to the judicially-reconstructed MDC-T announced that they have resolved their differences with the MDC Alliance and jointly occupied Harvest House, the party\u2019s national headquarters.\u00a0nine MDC Alliance youths were arrested on Monday morning in the vicinity of Harvest House, which was reclaimed by the party last night.<\/p>\n<p>The youths have been identified as Shallon Muvirimi, Winnet Dick, Fadzai Maboreke, Jaison Kautsa, Tafadzwa Matekenya, Tendai Muchekahanzu, Learnmore Chitima, Kingsley Mwachandi, Jeremiah Maponde.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Monday by Paul Gorekore on behalf of the MDC Youth Assembly (Harare Province), the youths said they made the move as the party had been infiltrated and captured by ZANU-PF elements battling to destroy the \u201cPeople\u2019s Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"wpusb-container-buttons\" class=\"wpusb wpusb-buttons  \" data-element-url=\"https%3A%2F%2Fnews.pindula.co.zw%2F2020%2F09%2F28%2Fmdc-alliance-dismisses-chamisa-arrest-claims%2F\" data-element-title=\"MDC%20Alliance%20Dismisses%20Chamisa%20Arrest%20Claims\" data-attr-reference=\"183004\" data-attr-nonce=\"8621183090\" data-is-term=\"0\" data-wpusb-component=\"counter-social-share\">\n<div class=\"wpusb-item wpusb-facebook \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpusb-item wpusb-twitter \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpusb-item wpusb-whatsapp \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yarpp-related\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition MDC Alliance (MDC-A) on Monday dismissed social media claims that party president Nelson Chamisa had been arrested. Open Space had, without giving details, posted on microblogging site Twitter that Chamisa had been arrested. The post read, \u201cMDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa arrested. More to follow.\u201d In a brief statement on its social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[113,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-28231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-parties","9":"tag-chamisa","10":"tag-mdc"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MDC Alliance Dismisses Chamisa Arrest Claims - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The opposition MDC Alliance (MDC-A) on Monday dismissed social media claims that party president Nelson Chamisa\" \/>\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\/mdc-alliance-dismisses-chamisa-arrest-claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MDC Alliance Dismisses Chamisa Arrest Claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The opposition MDC Alliance (MDC-A) on Monday dismissed social media claims that party president Nelson Chamisa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-dismisses-chamisa-arrest-claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-28T17:48:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/08\/Chamisa-559x381-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"559\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"381\" \/>\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\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/mdc-alliance-dismisses-chamisa-arrest-claims\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mdc-alliance-dismisses-chamisa-arrest-claims\",\"name\":\"MDC Alliance Dismisses Chamisa Arrest Claims - 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