A head teacher in Harare faces a possible five years in jail for telling parents that President Robert Mugabe’s re-election was ”morally invalid”, the Herald newspaper said Friday.
Terence Tiernan, headmaster of the exclusive St George’s College, was picked up by police on Tuesday and charged under the recently-introduced Public Order and Security Act (POSA), the state-run paper reported.
Tiernan wrote a letter to parents in March saying that anyone who believed the election in which Mugabe was re elected was free and fair was ”an ignorant and naive caveman.”
If convicted under the act he could face a fine of 100 000 Zimbabwe dollars ($1 818 US dollars) or five years in jail, or both, the Herald reported.
He was released from police custody after signing a cautioned statement, the paper said.- Sapa-AP