{"id":9107,"date":"2012-03-20T03:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-1-zimbabwe-convicts-6-of-plot-to-unseat-mugabe\/"},"modified":"2012-03-20T03:20:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:20:31","slug":"update-1-zimbabwe-convicts-6-of-plot-to-unseat-mugabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-zimbabwe-convicts-6-of-plot-to-unseat-mugabe\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Zimbabwe convicts 6 of plot to unseat Mugabe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sentencing to take place on Tuesday<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Group had shown videos of North Africa uprisings<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lawyers say videos were academic<\/p>\n<p> (Adds background, details)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>HARARE, March 19 (Reuters) &#8211; A court in Zimbabwe on Monday<br \/>\nconvicted six activists of plotting to unseat President Robert<br \/>\nMugabe&#8217;s government by stirring up Arab Spring-style protests<br \/>\nsimilar to those that toppled autocratic rulers in North Africa<br \/>\nlast year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The group, led by Munyaradzi Gwisai, a former opposition<br \/>\nlawmaker in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai&#8217;s party, was found<br \/>\nguilty of &#8220;conspiracy to commit acts of public violence&#8221; aimed<br \/>\nat overthrowing Mugabe, who has ruled the southern African state<br \/>\nsince its independence from Britain in 1980.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>All defendants denied the charges.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said that Gwisai, who heads the small but<br \/>\nradical pressure group International Socialist Organisation, had<br \/>\nshown fellow activists videos of popular uprisings which toppled<br \/>\nthe leaders of Egypt and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyers denied the activists had been plotting<br \/>\nanti-government protests, however, saying the videos had been<br \/>\nshown as part of an academic debate the group was having on<br \/>\nNorth African politics.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The group was arrested in February last year after police<br \/>\nraided a meeting they were holding.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Sentencing to take place on Tuesday * Group had shown videos of North Africa uprisings * Lawyers say videos were academic (Adds background, details) HARARE, March 19 (Reuters) &#8211; A court in Zimbabwe on Monday convicted six activists of plotting to unseat President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s government by stirring up Arab Spring-style protests similar to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}