MDC youth activist arrested for taking voter registration pictures released
By Violet Gonda
27 July 2007

The opposition youth official who was arrested on Thursday in Hatcliffe, Harare for taking pictures at a voter registration center was released on Friday afternoon. Brighton Chiwola, from the Mutambara-MDC had taken pictures of potential voters who were scrambling to register on the last day of registration, when he was arrested.

Harare North MP Trudy Stevenson said the photos he had taken at the registration center were all destroyed. The opposition and independent electoral bodies have criticized the way the exercise has been conducted. It is feared that the slow pace and inadequate publicity given to this exercise will exclude many people from voting in elections expected next year