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Zimbabwean novelist Dangarembga to face trial in 2020 protest case

FILE PHOTO: A member of jury, Tsitsi Dangarembga attends a photo call at the 72th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 10, 2022. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo

Prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga will face trial next week for staging an anti-government protest in 2020, a court ruled on Thursday.

Dangarembga was charged with breaking COVID-19 lockdown measures to hold an illegal gathering, after she staged a protest criticising the government's efforts to deal with corruption and a struggling economy in July 2020.

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