Bulawayo – Police yesterday questioned members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), a women’s pressure group, over whistles, scarves and papers found last month at the group’s office. WOZA founder Jenny Williams said she and two other members of the group were at Bulawayo magistrates’ court over a different matter when officers took them away to Bulawayo Central Police Station. ‘They said it was in connection with the raid of our office they had carried out on the 12th of July,’ Williams told ZimOnline. She said the search warrant police had used at the time indicated the law enforcement agents were looking for “inflammatory materials, weapons and explosives.” Williams said all the police could find were whistles, WOZA scarves and pamphlets which were to be used by the group during public meetings and demonstrations. According to Williams police had wanted to know the origins of the whistles which she said were donated to WOZA by wellwishers. The police ordered Williams and her colleagues to return this morning for further questioning. WOZA, which was formed two years ago, regularly holds demonstrations to press for women’s social, politcal and other rights. Many of the group’s demonstrations end up with the arrest of its members. Williams and her colleagues had gone to court yesterday for the hearing of a case in which 73 other members of WOZA were being charged with planning to hold demonstrations to mark World Refugee Day. The state eventually charged 11 members and released the rest of the group. The 11 will appear in court again on August 24.

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