Zim cops assault ZCTU president
14/09/2006 10:55  - (SA)  

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Cape Town - The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions president Lovemore Matombo, his first vice-president Lucia Matibenga and secretary-general Wellington Chibebe were "heavily assaulted" by police on Wednesday at Matapi police station in Mbare, said the ZCTU in a statement on Thursday.

They said that the assaults took place during the national day of protest against poverty led by the unions on Wednesday.

In a report released in South Africa by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, ZCTU spokesperson Mlamleli Sibanda said reports indicated that Matombo and Chibebe could not manage to stand after the assaults.

He said that they had to change their clothes "as they were soaked in blood".

Matibenga had swollen feet and could not walk. Sibanda said the three ZCTU leaders had not yet received any medical attention.

The ZCTU said that the police initially denied the ZCTU leaders access to a lawyer on Wednesday afternoon "and presumably this was the time they were being beaten".

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