At least 8 activists from the group Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) were arrested after a peaceful demonstration in Harare Tuesday. Woza coordinator Jenni Williams said the women were commemorating World Refugee Day in Harare when the police disrupted the demonstration.

The Woza women say that as people celebrate World Refugee Day Zimbabweans are becoming refugees in their own country.

109 activists were arrested Monday when the tireless WOZA women had taken their education campaign to the rural areas protesting against unaffordable school fees and the chasing home of children over unpaid fees in Filabusi Town in Insiza.

The women organized themselves and demonstrated at the District Education Ministry offices demanding their children’s right to an education. The pressure group held a similar demonstration in Bulawayo on the same day but this time targeting the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) and Department of Social Welfare.