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Zimbabwe police arrested for firing tear gas into bus full of commuters

Zimbabwe police arrested for firing tear gas into bus full of commuters

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE Zimbabwean government has suspended seven police officers after a video of commuters leaping from the bus after teargas was fired into it, went viral. Footage of bus commuters jumping from the bus through windows and teargas smoke billowing out of the bus were shared on social media. “Police brutality in Zimbabwe has reached shocking heights. They threw multiple teargas canisters into a bus filled with citizens threatening many lives with death by asphyxiation. We cannot breathe. There is a crisis in Zimbabwe. Retweet for awareness,” said Fadzayi Mahere, who shared the video on Twitter. The Zimbabwean…
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Morocco arrests dissident journalist on rape and spy charges

Morocco arrests dissident journalist on rape and spy charges

MOROCCAN police have arrested a dissident journalist and charged him with rape and helping foreign spies, a prosecutor said, in a case worrying rights groups. Omar Radi, a business journalist and critic of Morocco's human rights record, was also accused of receiving funds from abroad to undermine Morocco's security, the Casablanca prosecutor's office said in a statement. Radi, 33, denies all the charges, his lawyer Miloud Kandil told Reuters, adding that a first hearing would be on Sept. 22. His arrest follows 10 summons for a police investigation over suspicions of receiving funds linked to foreign intelligence which he denied.…
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Kenya arrests two police officers after ‘shooting incident’

Kenya arrests two police officers after ‘shooting incident’

KENYA's national police service has arrested two police officers and opened an investigation after "a shooting incident" in the eastern county of Garissa, the police service said on Sunday. The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA), a body set up to investigate cases of police brutality, has also sent its investigators to Garissa, it said late on Saturday. The national police service said two officers had been arrested "over a shooting incident at Soko Ng'ombe market within Garissa Township" and that the inspector general had ordered an investigation. "The inspector general has equally directed the directorate of criminal investigations to carry…
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