Europe get ready! Mugabe will be arriving soon
This weekend will see Robert Mugabe flying into Europe despite travel bans to attend the EU-AU summit due to be held in Lisbon, Portugal. It’s a good chance to show him what real democracy feels like, to be confronted by decent people demanding their rights and objecting to things like murder and torture and gross violations of human rights.
The Mugabe delegation will be greeted by at least 30 members of the Zimbabwe vigil Coalition who have been holding a weekly protest against the Mugabe regime for several years now. This press release from their website:
The Zimbabwe Vigil, which has been demonstrating against Mugabe outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in London every Saturday for more than five years, is to send a group of about 30 to Lisbon this week to protest during Mugabe’s attendance at the AU / EU Summit. The Vigil is linking up with a Portuguese human rights organisation, ADDHU (Associação de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos), to stage a demonstration as close to the Summit venue (Parque des Noacios) as the police will allow (100 metres). The demonstration will be on Saturday, 8th December from 2 – 5 pm. There will be singing and dancing to the sound of drums. Available for interviews will be Zimbabwean political activists and survivors of torture, rape and other abuses of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.
For further information on the demonstration and other activities planned for the summit, contact Vigil Co-ordinator Rose Benton 07940 996 003. Details of other action will be announced later.
The ADDHU website adds the following:
We expect the presence of Zimbabwe Vigil and some representatives from a German/Zimbabwe friendship organization as well as some representatives of the British and Swedish parliament. The Human Rights concerns us all. Justice will prevail.
Please, if you know of people who will be in Portugal and want to add their voice to the protesters, contact them and share the information. The bigger the crowd, the louder the message.
