A DOCUMENTARY detailing events surrounding the murder of opposition activist, Moreblessing Ali, will be premiered in the United Kingdom next week.
Change Radio, a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) linked outlet, is behind the documentary supported by Amnesty International UK and citizens in the diaspora.
It will be premiered on Saturday, August 19.
According to Change Radio, the film is meant to expose widespread human rights abuses which include torture, arbitrary detention and the use of excessive force against opposition supporters by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime.
“The documentary also narrates the events that happened to the 22 individuals following Ali’s memorial service known as the Nyatsime 22, this includes two CCC legislators Godfrey Sithole and Job Sikhala,” it said. “While 21 of the Nyatsime victims were released, Sikhala has remained in prison for over a year being denied bail.”
Sikhala has had several of his bail applications dismissed, and faces two other separate charges of obstructing the course of justice and disorderly conduct.
Sithole and other accused persons are out on bail.
Moreblessing’s brother, Washington said the family was still grieving and yet to find closure more than a year after her murder and her dismembered remains, were still being held at a State mortuary in Harare.
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“Justice has not been done yet. Sikhala is still in prison and Moreblessing is not yet buried,” Washington said yesterday.
“We demand justice and we also sympathise with Sikhala because he is being punished because of my sister. The worst thing is that they have gone to release murderers and rapists, yet Sikhala is still in prison.
“The documentary is just simply there to remind people what happened,” Washington added.
Ali went missing following her abduction from a bar in Chitungwiza’s Nyatsime area. Her body was found two weeks later in a well at a homestead of a known Chitungwiza Zanu PF leader, Simbarashe Chisango.
Ali’s body was hacked into two and her intestines were found in a plastic bag in the same well.
