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Justice
Kudya to preside over Maguwu's urgent chamber application
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR)
September 11, 2011
High Court Judge
Justice Samuel Kudya will on Monday 12 September 2011 preside over
an Urgent Chamber Application filed by lawyers representing prominent
diamond rights researcher, Farai
Maguwu, seeking to recover his impounded
property and to prevent State security agents from harassing him
further.
Justice Kudya
who heard the matter in his chambers on Sunday 11 September 2011
postponed the hearing to Monday 12 September 2011 to allow Mr Dodo
of the Attorney General's Civil Division to get instructions
from his clients, who are listed as respondents in the urgent Chamber
Application.
The respondents
include the co-Ministers of Home Affairs, the Chief Immigration
Officer, the Minister of Transport, Communication and Infrastructure
Development, the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe and the Minister
of State Security in the President's Office.
The lawyers
led by Denford Halimani of Wintertons Legal Practitioners, who is
a member lawyer of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights want an order
compelling the State security agents to permanently return the items
seized from Maguwu and to disclose to the diamond rights researcher,
his lawyers and to the Court, the identities of the State security
agents who unlawfully and unjustifiably seized his property.
The lawyers
also want the High Court to declare as wrongful, unlawful and unjustified
the seizure and deprivation of Maguwu's property.
The property
which was confiscated by some unidentified State security agents
at the Harare International Airport on Saturday 10 September 2011
include Maguwu's HP 625 laptop, power pack, wallet, Olympus
digital camera, cash, business cards, bank cards, personal notebooks,
laptop bag and all its contents. The State security agents also
seized his airline's boarding passes, his travel insurance,
accommodation bookings and three notepads.
The State
security agents harassed and prevented Maguwu from attending an
international conference in Ireland on rights violations, which
runs from 14 to 16 September 2011.
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