In March 2010 , he was arrested " less than 24 hours after his new exhibition opened " at the National Gallery in Bulawayo . His works referred to the massacres of Ndebele civilians during the Gukurahundi in the 1980s , carried out by forces loyal to Robert Mugabe . The exhibition , called " Sibathontisele " ( " Let 's Drip On Them " ) , consisted in " three installations and twelve paintings " . Maseko was charged , under the '' Public Order and Security Act '' , with " undermining the authority " of President Robert Mugabe . He was also charged with " causing offence to persons of a particular race or religion " . The charges carried a possible twenty-year prison sentence
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Owen Maseko