Zimbabwe's Political Prisoners: #ZimbabweanLivesMatter - a podcast by BSR: The Podcast

Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume were arrested in July 2020 when police carried out early morning raids at their homes. Many see the incarceration as vindictive punishment for exposing members of President Mnangagwa and his family in an explosive corruption scandal over the supply of medical goods. The corruption involved gross inflation of medical supplies for the COVID19 pandemic by companies linked to members of President Mnangagwa's circle. The scandal exposed and embarrassed Mnangagwa.

The state appears to be making an example of these two through the various delay tactics by the courts.

The most well-known political prisoners in Zimbabwe's history are Dumiso Dabengwa and Lookout Masuku, both war heroes who were persecuted by the Mugabe regime soon after independence. They were charged with treason and spent years detained without trial. Masuku died in such captivity. Although the government later took him to a public hospital, the truth is that the war hero died at the hands of the State.

Unfortunately, Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume are not the only ones. There are many others whose names are not known that have been at the receiving end of the state's fury.

https://www.bigsr.co.uk/single-post/2020/08/09/Why-Im-worried-for-Hopewell-and-Jacob

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