{"id":5952,"date":"2013-03-20T06:37:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T10:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2013-03-20T06:37:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T10:37:43","slug":"zimbabwe-more-police-raids-in-search-of-shortwave-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/zimbabwe-more-police-raids-in-search-of-shortwave-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: More police raids in search of shortwave radios"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this case it’s not a child<\/a> who was targeted in the raid, rather, the Prime Minister’s Principal Director:<\/p>\n

\"Zimbabwe-Map\"<\/a>(Source: SW Radio Africa<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A top lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, is being held by Harare police after she reacted to early morning raids leading to the arrest of Thabani Mpofu, Principal Director in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai\u2019s Office, a day after Zimbabweans voted in a constitutional referendum.<\/p>\n

Thabani Mpofu, the Principal Director for Research and Development in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai\u2019s office, was taken from his home at 6am.<\/p>\n

The police, led by Inspector Mirimbo from Law and Order Harare Central, later raided the Prime Minister\u2019s office in Bath Road in Belgravia, leading to the arrest of feisty human rights lawyer. The police, who did not have a search warrant, are said to have been looking for shortwave radios. [Continue reading on SW Radio Africa’s website…<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this case it’s not a child who was targeted in the raid, rather, the Prime Minister’s Principal Director: (Source: SW Radio Africa) A top lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, is being held by Harare police after she reacted to early morning raids leading to the arrest of Thabani Mpofu, Principal Director in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[1767,84,136],"class_list":["post-5952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-sw-radio-africa","tag-why-shortwave-radio","tag-zimbabwe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1y0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5898,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/sw-radio-africa-police-targeting-children-in-radio-raids\/","url_meta":{"origin":5952,"position":0},"title":"SW Radio Africa: Police targeting children in radio raids","author":"Thomas","date":"March 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: SW Radio Africa) By Nomalanga Moyo 14 March 2013 The illegal seizure of wind-up radios reached new levels this week with reports that the police are now using primary school pupils to source information about the receivers. 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