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ZIMBABWE: Activist pastor jailed for criticising Mugabe
Pastor Evans Mawarire of the #ThisFlag movement in Zimbabwe is now cooling his heels in police net after he was arrested for a Facebook video he posted on Saturday lambasting the government of Robert Mugabe over its economic policies.
According to his lawyer Harrison Nkomo, his client Evans was nabbed by cops as he stepped down from his pulpit and has been charged with subversion, which carries a maximum term of life imprisonment, for a Facebook video he posted.
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Evans was already due to face trial of subversion over the 2016 protests at a High Court trial on Monday.
“He is due to appear in court tomorrow on subversion charges emanating from last year. So we really don’t know how the state will proceed,” said Nkomo.
The embattled pastor has been at the heart of a protest movement against Mugabe’s 37-year rule. In 2016, he led a stay-at-home demonstration that resulted in the first of his now three arrests for what the state says are attempts to overthrow the government.
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