ROHR Zimbabwe exhorts Zimbabweans to confront the Government over the abduction of Moreblessing Ali.

Thursday 2^nd June 2022

By Mandulo Pasichigare,

To mark the start of ROHR Zimbabwe’s campaign dubbed #BringbackMoreblessingAli, on Monday 30^th May 2022, Silvanos Mudzvova, a member of The Advocacy & Mentorship Team of Restoration ofHuman Rights (ROHR) Zimbabwe, via this video , exhorted Zimbabweans to pile pressure on the regime to release Moreblessing Ali, a political activist who was attacked, badly injured and bundled into a car at the shops in the Nyatsime area of Chitungwiza by ZANU-PF supporters on Tuesday 24^th May 2022 and has not been seen or heard from since then.

On Thursday 2^nd June 2022, Nontokozo Malaba Ncube, the Vice Chairperson of the North Branch of the UK Chapter of Restoration of Human Rights (ROHR) Zimbabwe followed up with a call for the release of Moreblessing Ali under the same campaign via another video .

This case is one of the latest in a fresh wave of State sponsored abductions and attempted abductions.

In a case of attempted abduction only a few days ago on Friday 27^th May 2022 there was an attempt to abduct Mduduzi Mathuthu, the Editor of ZimLive.com. He was lucky to have been away from home when  five men purporting to be Policemen, driving in an unmarked car, without registration number plates turned up looking for him.

The Zimbabwe government has got a history of state sponsored abductions, persecution, forced disappearances and murder of its critics, especially political and human rights activists as well as journalists.

Most notable of these was the case of Paul Chizuze, a human rights activist who was abducted on 8^th February 2012 and Itai Dzamara, a journalist and pro-democracy activist who was abducted on 9^th March 2015. Both men have never been found since.

By Mandulo Pasichigare

About the author
Mandulo Pasichigare is the pen name for Panyika Karimanzira a.k.a. Shangoni WaHamisi, a United Kingdom based Zimbabwean human rights activist who is a Board Member and Spokesperson for Restoration of Human Rights (ROHR) Zimbabwe. Mandulo Pasichigare can be contacted via email Mandulo.pasichigare@yahoo.ie .