{"id":58136,"date":"2022-04-25T17:51:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tortured-and-abused-rural-teacher-wins-compensation"},"modified":"2022-04-25T20:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:03:18","slug":"tortured-and-abused-rural-teacher-wins-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/tortured-and-abused-rural-teacher-wins-compensation","title":{"rendered":"Tortured And Abused Rural Teacher Wins Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Harare Magistrate Victoria Mashamba has ordered the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) and two cabinet ministers to pay ZWL$200 000 to a teacher who was arrested, tortured and abused by police and prison officers two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), Munyaradzi Masiyiwa, who is employed as a teacher and is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), was arrested on 16 August 2019 in Harare.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested at Market Square bus terminus in Harare as he was waiting to board a commuter omnibus to go to his place of residence.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers who arrested Masiyiwa allegedly mistook him for an opposition MDC party supporter as he was wearing a red shirt.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest took place on the day when the then Nelson Chamisa-led party had organised an anti-government protest over the country\u2019s worsening economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The police officers who arrested Masiyiwa handcuffed, bundled him into their truck and severely assaulted and tortured him while he lay on his abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>They used truncheons to assault Masiyiwa all over his body before instructing him to make coital movements and simulate as if he was having sexual intercourse with the ZRP vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Harare Central Prison where he was remanded in custody and further assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>Masiyiwa was allegedly ordered by prison officers to strip naked and jump up and down with his hands in the air and was also denied food.<\/p>\n<p>He was eventually cleared of the public violence charges on 7 October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Masiyiwa engaged ZLHR\u2019s Tinashe Chinopfukutwa who sued ZRP Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and ZPCS Commissioner-General Moses Chihobvu and a police officer only identified as Jambaya.<\/p>\n<p>Masiyiwa demanded ZWL$200 000 in damages for pain and suffering, trauma, contumelia, embarrassment and humiliation.<\/p>\n<p>He told the court that he had been severely abused and humiliated by the conduct of ZRP and ZPCS officers.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Mashamba ordered Matanga, Kazembe, Ziyambi, Chihobvu and Jambaya to pay ZWL$200 000 to Masiyiwa as compensation for the ill-treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty was broken down as ZWL$100 000 for pain and suffering and ZWL$100 000 for embarrassment, affront to dignity, humiliation and contumelia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Harare Magistrate Victoria Mashamba has ordered the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) and two cabinet ministers to pay ZWL$200 000 to a teacher who was arrested, tortured and abused by police and prison officers two years ago. 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