Assailants yesterday used hammers to force entry into a Zimbabwean gay rights group’s offices, where they locked employees in a room and then ransacked the premises, the organisation said.
Report by Sapa
“About 20 men besieged our office, rounded up the staff, including board members in a meeting.
“They collected our personal property, laptops and cellphones and fled,” an activist with Galz (Gay and Lesbian Association of Zimbabwe) said.
In a statement on its website, the group thanked the police’s “swift reaction” to the attack. .
“We are not taking this incident as a random act of attempted robbery, but that of youth militia acting on someone’s orders,” the statement continued. Police declined a request for comment.
President Robert Mugabe has said in the past that gays are “worse than pigs and dogs”
Attempts to enshrine gay rights in the country’s new Constitution, which was adopted this year, failed.
