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‘Prosecution by persecution’: Job Sikhala, the Zimbabwean politician imprisoned 65 times
By Chris Muronzi | Al Jazeera
JOB “Wiwa” Sikhala has spent the last 17 months in the Chikurubi maximum-security prison, the longest stretch an opposition figure has been held in pre-trial detention in almost four decades in Zimbabwe.
But the 51-year-old lawyer is no stranger to prison life: This is his 65th arrest since his foray into partisan politics in 1999 at the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the largest opposition in the Southern African country for years.
Sikhala’s most recent arrest happened in June 2022.
The authorities allege that he was obstructing justice and inciting public violence by allegedly saying the ruling party had killed Moreblessing Ali, an opposition activist.
“My father has been arrested … on mostly trumped-up charges.
That is why he has never been convicted in the almost 65 times he was charged,” Job Sikhala Jnr, a second-year law stude