{"id":80159,"date":"2023-07-07T10:52:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T08:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/human-rights-lawyer-shava-battling-for-life"},"modified":"2023-07-07T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T12:22:46","slug":"human-rights-lawyer-shava-battling-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/human-rights-lawyer-shava-battling-for-life","title":{"rendered":"Human rights lawyer Shava battling for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>HUMAN rights lawyer, Obey Shava, is battling for life at a private hospital in Harare after he was brutally assaulted by suspected State security agents on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Shava has been representing the Citizens Coalitions for Change (CCC) supporters in various cases.<\/p>\n<p>CCC deputy spokesperson, Gift \u201cOstallos\u201d Siziba, confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes it\u2019s true, I am in the rural areas but I have just been briefed on the matter,\u201d Siziba said.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said he had not received the report.<\/p>\n<p>Harare city councillor Denford Ngadziore who visited Shava at the hospital said the human rights lawyer was badly injured.<\/p>\n<p>Shava sustained broken legs and other serious injuries all over the body.<\/p>\n<p>The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) in a statement said: \u201cWe strongly condemn such despicable and cowardly conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet Advocate Thabani Mpofu said Shava was attacked by four men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTop lawyer Obey Shava was this evening (Wednesday night) viciously attacked by four men who broke his legs and left him battling for life,\u201d Mpofu said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe safety of our citizens must be uppermost on the State\u2019s agenda particularly during this crazy season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes as political temperatures keep rising as the country edges towards the August 23 elections.<\/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. HUMAN rights lawyer, Obey Shava, is battling for life at a private hospital in Harare after he was brutally assaulted by suspected State security agents on Wednesday night. Shava has been representing the Citizens Coalitions for Change (CCC) supporters in various cases. CCC deputy spokesperson, Gift \u201cOstallos\u201d Siziba, confirmed the incident. \u201cYes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":80158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-80159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-africa-press","10":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","11":"tag-zimbabwe"},"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>Human rights lawyer Shava battling for life - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HUMAN rights lawyer, Obey Shava, is battling for life at a private hospital in Harare after he was brutally assaulted by ...\" \/>\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\/human-rights-lawyer-shava-battling-for-life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Human rights lawyer Shava battling for life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HUMAN rights lawyer, Obey Shava, is battling for life at a private hospital in Harare after he was brutally assaulted by ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/human-rights-lawyer-shava-battling-for-life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-07T08:52:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-07T12:22:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/sm_1688716241.825487.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"960\" \/>\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\/human-rights-lawyer-shava-battling-for-life\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/human-rights-lawyer-shava-battling-for-life\",\"name\":\"Human rights lawyer Shava battling for life - 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