BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe.(News of the South)- A student Journalist, Tawanda Muchehiwa who was abducted Thursday afternoon in Bulawayo’s central business district by suspected State security agents was on Monday taken to court in an ambulance amid indication that his kidneys could have been damaged.
By Xolisani Ncube
According to the medical report, Muchehiwa, a second-year journalism student was admitted at a private hospital in Bulawayo, where doctors expressed alarm over injuries inflicted on his kidneys.
He was heavily tortured by his captors who dumped him Saturday evening following a ruling earlier that day by High Court judge, Justice Martin Makonese compelling the police to bring him before a Bulawayo Tredgold Magistrate within 72 hours.
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Muchehiwa is nephew to journalist Mduduzi Mathuthu and had been missing for four days.
He was given a sack and told that was his blanket for two nights. He was fed meals of bread, and the staple isitshwala/sadza on the final day of his ordeal.
He said the food looked suspicious and when he refused to eat, he was badly assaulted.
Muchehiwa’s captors also made him drink his own urine, and at one time threatened to circumcise him after ordering him to lower his trousers.
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