IN THE PHOTO: Post newspaper editor-in-chief Fred M’membe (left), deputy managing editor Joseph Mwenda (right) and M’membe wife Mutinta made to sit on the tarmac outside the Post newspapers offices in Lusaka after being arrested by police on Tuesday June 28, 2016.
Police beat up M’membe and brutally roughed up Mwenda and Mutinta before bundling them in a police van which drove off to Lusaka Central Police where they’ve been locked up. The police also beat up for Director of Prosecutions Mutembo Nchito when he tried to stop the harassments. Nchito is the lawyer for the Post newspaper.
The Post obtained a court order that granted them permission to commence normal operations pending court hearing but Lungu disregarded it in the typical Zimbabwean and Ugandan dictator style and had them arrested.
This is how all dictators behave by disregarding institutions of democracy such as courts and resorting to suppression.
