More worrying were the actions of individuals, abusing their authority to further their political affiliations or to ban participation in certain meetings and gatherings. Such incidents were noted in the March-April CISOMM report. For example, the ZANU PF governor for Mashonaland Central banned meetings organized by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) scheduled for 7 and 8 April meant to discuss electoral reforms as part of the new constitution. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development in Gweru instructed their staff not to engage NGOs in outreach around the constitution as they had their own Ministry programme. A councilor in Mberengwa stopped a meeting on transitional justice saying it was not acceptable to discuss issues of healing in his area. Some particularly disturbing cases occurred, which showed that police continued to stifle free and peaceful civil society activities through disruptions, unlawful arrests, detentions, searches as well as threats and intimidation. For example, the General-Secretary of GAPWUZ, Mrs Gertrude Hambira had to flee the country after, police threatened and intimidated her and her staff concerning a documentary, The House of Justice, and the accompanying report, If Something is Wrong. In another incident the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) photo exhibition depicting human rights violations during the violent 2008 Presidential Elections run-off only went ahead in Harare on 14 April after the High Court ordered police to return the photographs they had confiscated. ZimRights Director, Okay Machisa, was detained for several hours when the police first seized the photographs on 13 April and threatened him with unspecified criminal charges. Although the exhibition went ahead uninterrupted in Mutare, the police later seized the pictures in Masvingo and detained the Provincial Chair, although he was later released without being charged. Another incident was the arrest of Farai Muguwu of the Centre for Research and Development (CRD) by the police in Mutare on 27 May 2010. The police officers raided the offices and took away some documents. Farai Maguwu was denied bail for several weeks. The CRD has been exposing rights abuses in the diamond fields in Chiadzwa, Marange. Independent media journalists, editors and other staff members also continue to be victims of harassment by the police. For instance, Golden Maunganidze the editor of The Masvingo Mirror was on 10 May 2010 interrogated for six hours by the police following publication of a story that allegedly criminally defamed Walter Mzembi, the Minister of Tourism. In another incident, two staff members from Zimbabwe’s first independent daily newspaper in seven years (NewsDay) were arrested when the paper hit the streets for the first time. The NewsDay staff members and two distribution agents were picked up by police while distributing a special free edition of the paper. Article XII of GPA prohibits the use of violence to achieve political ends, and despite a rhetorical rejection of violence, the Inclusive Government has failed to curb politically motivated violence between their supporters. Conducive conditions for meaningful citizen participation in the constitution making process to produce a credible people driven constitution have not been created. In fact, the reality on the ground as already noted is that the constitution making outreach programme has become a major source of coercion and intimidation, intended to muzzle meaningful debate and input into the process. Perpetrators of such violence are, according to most reports, ZANU PF hardliners, officials, Youth militia (or the so called Border Gezi members), Zimbabwe National Army members in districts, war veterans and some traditional leaders. CIVIL SOCIETY MONITORING MECHANISM (CISOMM) SIX MONTH SHADOW REPORT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE INCLUSIVE OF ZIMBABWE 39