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==Arrests and charges== | ==Arrests and charges== | ||
Dauntless, about 03:00 hours the following day, Mutembo was taken to Cairo Road where he climbed a tree with a megaphone to denounce the new constitution. At 06:00 hours, he started proclaiming his message, but was soon surrounded by police who threatened to shoot him if he did not get down. He was arrested. | Dauntless, about 03:00 hours the following day, Mutembo was taken to [[Cairo Road]] where he climbed a tree with a megaphone to denounce the new constitution. At 06:00 hours, he started proclaiming his message, but was soon surrounded by police who threatened to shoot him if he did not get down. He was arrested. | ||
Today, the tree still stands opposite the Main Post Office and later came to be known as "Zanco Tree". | Today, the tree still stands opposite the Main Post Office and later came to be known as "[[Zanco Tree]]". | ||
Mutembo appeared in court after having been involved in a political brawl in [[Matero]]. He had been badly beaten in the fight and lost two of his front teeth, a mark he still bears. When the judge asked him to demonstrate to the court how he had been beaten, the young freedom fighter walked across the courtroom from the witness box and, reaching where one of the prosecutors - a white man - was standing, and punched him in the face, giving him a bloody nose. His action was a blatant show of rebellion in the face of the colonial government. At the end of the trial, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison plus four lashes for punching the prosecutor. He was sent to Livingstone State Prison where he was held in chains. While in prison, Mutembo was forced to witness executions of three black men accused of murdering a white man. | Mutembo appeared in court after having been involved in a political brawl in [[Matero]]. He had been badly beaten in the fight and lost two of his front teeth, a mark he still bears. When the judge asked him to demonstrate to the court how he had been beaten, the young freedom fighter walked across the courtroom from the witness box and, reaching where one of the prosecutors - a white man - was standing, and punched him in the face, giving him a bloody nose. His action was a blatant show of rebellion in the face of the colonial government. At the end of the trial, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison plus four lashes for punching the prosecutor. He was sent to Livingstone State Prison where he was held in chains. While in prison, Mutembo was forced to witness executions of three black men accused of murdering a white man. | ||
