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Zimbabwe author Tsitsi Dangarembga has conviction for protest overturned

Zimbabwe author Tsitsi Dangarembga has conviction for protest overturned

Harare high court quashes suspended sentence and fine handed down to Booker-longlisted writer last year

Zimbabwean author and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga has had her conviction for inciting violence by staging a peaceful protest overturned.

The critically acclaimed writer was given a six-month suspended sentence and fined 70,000 Zimbabwean dollars (£170) in September 2022 for staging a protest calling for political reform. During the 2020 protest, alongside fellow activist Julie Barnes, Dangarembga held a placard inscribed: “We want better. Reform our institutions.”

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