{"id":2042,"date":"2018-04-03T07:40:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wozazim.org\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:53:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:53:19","slug":"20-woza-members-remain-in-custody-in-masvingo-on-international-womenaes-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/?p=2042","title":{"rendered":"20 WOZA members remain in custody in Masvingo on International Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update \u2013 9pm <\/strong><br \/>\n20 WOZA members remain in police custody in Masvingo tonight \u00e2\u20ac\u201c their third night \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in direct contravention of the 48-hours maximum period allowed under the Public Order and Security Act (POSA). Police gave the excuse that their equipment was not functioning properly so they could not take the statements of all 20 in time. Lawyers also blamed a go-slow at the courts for the inability to bring an urgent High Court application before a judge to demand their immediate release. The group was arrested at noon on Tuesday whilst launching the People\u2019s Charter. The group is expected to appear in court early tomorrow morning (Friday).<\/p>\n<p>The 17 women and three men are split between Masvingo Central and Chikato Police Stations. Please call these stations and demand to know why they are insisting on holding WOZA members illegally.<br \/>\nMasvingo Central \u2013  +263 (0) 39 62221.<br \/>\nChikato \u00e2\u20ac\u201c +263 (0) 39 62308<\/p>\n<p>\t\t&#13;\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Update \u2013 9pm 20 WOZA members remain in police custody in Masvingo tonight \u00e2\u20ac\u201c their third night \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in direct contravention of the 48-hours maximum period allowed under the Public Order and Security Act (POSA). Police gave the excuse that their equipment was not functioning properly so they could not take the statements of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/?p=2042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20 WOZA members remain in custody in Masvingo on International Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/2121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wozazim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}