Zimbabwe opposition figures detained in crackdown after disputed election

President Emmerson Mnangagwa announces his new cabinet at the State House in Harare. The opposition CCC called the election result a ‘gigantic fraud’. Photograph: Aaron Ufumeli/EPA

Barely a week after being sworn in as an opposition MP following elections in Zimbabwe last month, Gift Siziba found himself in police custody facing several charges, including inciting violence at a football match and defacing posters of an opponent in Bulawayo.

While other legislators debate in parliament, Siziba, from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has been in and out of court defending his innocence.