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Jailed student leader released
Students Solidarity Trust
October 25, 2007

Jailed Great Zimbabwe University students' executive council (SEC) Secretary General was released late yesterday. This follows a meeting between his lawyer and the regional prosecutor for Masvingo. Edison has been released on five million dollars bail.

He also surrendered his passport with the Masvingo magistrate court. He was also ordered to report twice a week at Masvingo central police station. Hlatshwayo was arrested on 27 September while attending a Youth Forum meeting at Charles Austin theatre hall. Since then he has been remanded in custody.

Meanwhile four other students who were also remanded in custody have been granted bail by courts in Masvingo. Oglvy Makova, George Makamure, Brenda Mupfurutsa and Joel Bingudza have been granted $5 million bail, and have been told to report once every week to the CID Law and Order Section, Masvingo.

The trial date has been set for 7th of November 2007. The four had been arrested in connection with a demonstration in Masvingo that sought to denounce the continued incarceration of the then detained student leader, Edison Hlatshwayo, dubbed the Free Edison campaign by the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU).

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