“Lord free us, we are tired by so much poverty”: 34 apostolic faithful in Zimbabwe were given suspended prison sentences for singing gospel songs deemed anti-government in the street, we were informed on Wednesday by their lawyer.
Members of the Mirirai Jehovha church, also belonging to the small opposition party Zimbabwe Transformative Party (ZTP), were sentenced Tuesday by a court in the capital Harare to a three-month prison sentence commuted to suspended payment of a fine equivalent to 32 euros each.
“We may appeal,” Me Evans Moyo told AFP.
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The 34 people, most of them young women, had already been behind bars for four months before their trial.
In July, dressed in long colorful dawns, the…
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