Zimbabwe 逮捕(する)s US woman for Mugabe 'goblin' tweet

A US citizen has been arrested for a tweet just weeks after Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe appointed a cyber security minister charged with policing social media

A US 国民 has been 逮捕(する)d for a tweet just weeks after Zimbabwe 大統領 Robert Mugabe 任命するd a cyber 安全 大臣 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d with policing social マスコミ

Zimbabwean police 逮捕(する)d a US 国民 on Friday for 恐らく tweeting that 大統領 Robert Mugabe is a "goblin whose wife and step-son bought a Rolls-Royce," lawyers said.

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human 権利s (ZLHR) said officers 拘留するd Martha O'Donovan in a 夜明け (警察の)手入れ,急襲 at her home just weeks after Mugabe 任命するd a cyber 安全 大臣 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d with policing social マスコミ.

Police 押収するd her laptop and transferred O'Donovan, who 作品 for Harare-based Magamba TV, to the city's central police 駅/配置する, the group 追加するd in its 声明.

"The 報告(する)/憶測d 不快な/攻撃 and 侮辱ing tweet does not make any について言及する of the 大統領,/社長's 指名する," ZLHR said.

However Mugabe's stepson with his wife and first-lady Grace, Russell Goreraza, is thought to have recently 輸入するd two Rolls-Royce 乗り物s into the country, 地元の マスコミ 報告(する)/憶測d.

The British-buil t cars -- both Rolls-Royce Ghosts that sell for around $220,000 (190,000 euros) and have a 最高の,を越す 速度(を上げる) of 155 miles per hour -- are marketed by the 製造業者 as "more 手段d, more 現実主義の" than the $300,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom.

Grace Mugabe's son is also 報告(する)/憶測d to have 購入(する)d two 範囲 Rover 4X4s, two Mercedes-Benz S-Class リムジンs and an Aston ツバメ, while Grace herself is also thought to have acquired a Rolls-Royce.

"The US 大使館 has been in 接触する with the American who has been 逮捕(する)d and her counsel," an 大使館 広報担当者 told AFP. "We will continue to 監視する the 状況/情勢."

Police did not 答える/応じる to calls for comment.

There have been several 逮捕(する)s in 最近の years for 活動/戦闘s みなすd to 土台を崩す the 大統領,/社長, although no one has been 罪人/有罪を宣告するd.

Two men were 逮捕(する)d 分かれて on Friday after they 恐らく said they would not 投票(する) for the 判決,裁定 ZANU-PF party and comparing Mugabe to a dog.

The new cyber-安全 省 is "an 試みる/企てる to clamp 負かす/撃墜する on social マスコミ movements that 提起する/ポーズをとる a big 脅し to his 政権 ahead of the 選挙," Bulawayo-based 分析家 Dumisani Mpofu 以前 told AFP.

Mugabe has already been 指名するd by ZANU-PF party as its 大統領の 候補者 for the 2018 投票.

Zimbabwe has an 失業 of more than 90 パーセント and rising levels of poverty.

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