25 • Twenty-one unnamed MDC supporters were kidnapped and assaulted on 28 July in Musana CL by Zanu (PF) supporters. • On 28 July, Trymore Midzi, an MDC supporter, and Eliot Pfebve, the MDC MP candidate for Bindura were arrested for actions that might trigger violence. • An elderly woman (name withheld) was working in the fields when a group of Zanu (PF) youth approached her and asked her where her husband was. She told them he was in Harare, and then they took her to the local school where they questioned her again. They brought her back to her home and stole her money and some food. They took her outside and forced her to lie down. One of them grabbed her by the throat as another sat on her knees and tortured her by beating her under the feet (falanga) until she fainted. She regained consciousness, borrowed money from a friend, and fled to Harare. • On 13 July , whilst at his shop, W.M. was approached by two truckloads of Zanu (PF) supporters. They disembarked from lorries, began chanting Zanu (PF) slogans, and forced him to chant the slogans. They began assaulting him with sticks, chains, and sjamboks and kicked him in the chest and the side of the body. He was later carried in a wheelchair to his home. Later that day the Zanu (PF) supporters returned to his home. They pulled him out of his bedroom and began assaulting him with sticks. They burned the blankets and clothing of his wife and children. They took 14 chickens, burned the maize in his grainery, killed four goats and two dogs, and left him lying on the ground. He traveled to Bindura on the following day and reported the incidents to the police, who took him to Bindura Hospital where he was treated. Later that day in the hospital, he was afraid that the perpetrators were coming to the hospital to kill him. He fled to Harare. • On 13 July, a group of about 25 people, including M.T., were taken by police from Bindura rural areas to the police station. He was tortured by being beaten with fists and flat wooden planks all over his body and underneath the feet (falanga). The group was taken to Rusape Police Station where M.T. was again beaten. He was released at midnight. • G.M. was tortured by police on 12 July at Bindura Police Station. He was beaten with wooden sticks, kept overnight, and deprived of food. When he was released, he tried to walk back to his home but was intercepted by Zanu (PF) supporters and beaten with sugar cane. • O.M., a student, has been living in Harare since mid-May due to the burning of his parents’ home by Zanu (PF) supporters. • On 22 July, K.G. was in a motorcade driving through Musana when it was blocked by mob of Zanu (PF) supporters. The window of the vehicle that she was driving in was smashed and she was hit by an object that she thought was a stone. • C.V. was abducted by Zanu (PF) supporters on 28 July at Manhenga and taken to Chieta the following day. He was tortured at Manhenga by falanga with a stick and rubber and beaten on his buttocks. He was beaten in the face with fists, kicked on both sides of his body with booted feet, kicked in the head, and assaulted with fingernails on his face. He has difficulty walking, and cannot hear properly as a result of the torture. He also experienced psychological torture: verbal abuse, threats against him and his family and threats of sexual abuse. • Thirty-four Zanu (PF) supporters, one identified as Salim, on 27 July, approached M.C. They apprehended him after they threw stones so that he would fall down. They began AMANI TRUST: Organised Violence and Torture in the Bye-Elections held in Zimbabwe during 2000 and 2001.