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Judge postpones bail hearing for residents as he amends suspects' bail conditions
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)
July 27, 2011

High Court Judge Justice Samuel Kudya on Wednesday 27 July 2011 once again postponed the bail hearing of eight Harare residents arrested two months ago on charges of murdering a policeman to Thursday 28 July 2011.

Justice Kudya postponed the bail hearing of the eight residents whose lawyers Tawanda Zhuwarara and Jeremiah Bamu of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) launched a fresh bid for freedom citing changed circumstances because of the absence of Edmore Nyazamba, a representative of the Attorney General's Office who could not argue his response to the bail application.

The postponement of the bail hearing was the second one inside one week after Nyazamba on Tuesday 26 July 2011 applied for a postponement to Wednesday 27 July 2011 so as to enable him to file his response to the residents' bail application.

The eight residents remained incarcerated at Harare remand prison and Chikurubi prison after they were denied bail when their co-accused were freed by High Court Judge Justice Tendai Uchena early this month.

Meanwhile, Justice Kudya amended the bail conditions for two residents who had been languishing in remand prison despite being granted bail early this month by Justice Uchena.

Edwin Muingiri and Zwelibanzi Dube had been ordered to surrender their travel documents with the clerk of the Harare Magistrates Court as part of their bail conditions when in fact they had no such passports. Justice Kudya granted the application for variation of bail conditions filed by one of the residents' lawyers Jeremiah Bamu of ZLHR.

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