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Bodyguards of President Mugabe's daughter will not be prosecuted

by Suranee | June 8, 2009 at 07:34 pm

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On February 13th, two photographers, one British and the other American were assaulted in Hong Kong by two bodyguards of the Zimbabwe President's daughter. The two bodyguards will not be prosecuted for the assault.

Hong Kong - Two bodyguards protecting the daughter of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe will not be prosecuted for allegedly roughing up two photographers in Hong Kong, officials said Tuesday.

The assault took place outside a 5-million-US-dollar villa in Hong Kong provided for Mugabe's daughter by her father while she studies.

The two Zimbabwean nationals, who have not been named, allegedly assaulted Briton Colin Galloway and American Tim O'Rourke on February 13 outside a 5-million-US-dollar villa in Hong Kong provided for Bona by her father while she studies.

The names of the two bodyguards have not been revealed but one was a male and the other a female.

Government lawyers have decided the male and female bodyguards hired to mind 20-year-old Bona Mugabe, who is at university in Hong Kong, behaved as they did because they were "genuinely concerned for the safety of Miss Mugabe.

It was just a month earlier that the Zimbabwe President's wife assaulted a photographer while she was shopping.

The incident took place one month after Robert Mugabe's wife and Bona's mother, Grace, allegedly assaulted another photographer who took pictures of her shopping in Tsim Sha Tsui. The Department of Justice later decided she was entitled to diplomatic immunity.