Activists were arrested as they gathered in Highfields, Harare, on March 11. Many were badly beaten whilst in police custody. This is a slideshow of images from the Prayer Meeting.
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As we go forward, may the peace of God be with you; and may we pray for that peace to be found throughout the great nation of Zimbabwe.
Save Zimbabwe Campaign Prayer Meeting: 11 March, 2007
Zimbabwe threatens to expel foreign diplomats
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s foreign minister told Western diplomats Monday they would be expelled if they gave financial or diplomatic support to government opponents.
Pressuring diplomats would make it even harder for the international community to keep tabs on a government accused of repressing its people and ruining its economy. The Zimbabwean government prevented opponents from leaving the country over the weekend and has long severely restricted the press.
A diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. Ambassador Christopher Dell, an outspoken critic of Zimbabwe’s human rights record, walked out of a meeting at which the warning to diplomats was delivered after Foreign Minister Simearashe Mbengegwi said he would not respond to any questions.
The foreign minister, acting on instructions from President Robert Mugabe, told the Western diplomats that the Vienna Convention governing diplomatic behavior prohibited foreign embassies from involving themselves in the internal affairs of the host nation.
Event Ideas
Benefit concerts, prayer vigils, bake sales. Ready to help promote the International Day of Prayer for Zimbabwe? Read on.
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Prayer Room
Create a room with prayer stations. Participants will move at their own speed through the room, reading the prayer points and praying on their own.
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SWRadio: 7 March, 2007
Last week, Kiki joined Duane on SWRadio’s broadcast discussing the International Day of Prayer. Listen in HERE
AP: Tutt decries silence on Zimbabwe’s attacks on opposition
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Friday lambasted African silence about the brutal treatment of democracy activists in Zimbabwe.
“We Africans should hang our heads in shame,” said Tutu, who is widely regarded as South Africa’s moral conscience. “How can what is happening in Zimbabwe elicit hardly a word of concern let alone condemnation from us leaders of Africa?”
There has been increasing criticism of South Africa’s refusal to condemn the arrest and beatings of scores of opposition demonstrators, including the main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Lawyers: Zimbabwean opposition tortured by police
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Top opposition leaders were assaulted and tortured by police who broke up a prayer meeting planned to protest government policies, colleagues of the activists said Monday.
One protester was shot dead by police in Sunday’s unrest in the outskirts of the capital and scores of others were arrested. Journalists trying to cover the events also were arrested.
In a statement, organizers of the prayer meeting, an alliance of opposition, civic, church leaders and student and anti-government groups, said lawyers who visited the detainees Monday reported the main opposition party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, fainted three times after being beaten by police.
The alliance, called the Save Zimbabwe Campaign, said another opposition leader, Lovemore Madhuku, was taken to the main Harare hospital early Monday after collapsing from police assaults.