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Index of articles on enforced disappearances in Zimbabwe
Police
launch manhunt for freelance photojournalist
MISA-Zimbabwe
April 24, 2009
Police have launched
a search for freelance journalist; Anderson Shadreck Manyere who
was recently released on bail from Chikurubi Maximum Prison together
with co-accused Movement for Democratic Change activists Gandhi
Mudzingwa and Kisimusi Dhlamini.
The trio were
granted bail by High Court Judge Charles Hungwe on 9 April 2009,
and were released on 17 April, 2009 as their lawyers were unaware
of the fact that State Prosecutor Chris Mutangadura had on 14 April,
2009 noted an appeal against the bail grant before Justice Bhunu.
The appeal immediately evoked Section 121 of the Criminal
Procedure and Evidence Act (CPEA) which sets out the procedure
for an appeal against bail.
The application was
granted the same day that Manyere was released from Chikurubi Maximum
Prison and automatically suspended the decision by Justice Hungwe
to liberate the accused persons.
With the granting of
the application, the police on 20 April, 2009 immediately re-arrested
Gandhi Mudzingwa and Kisimusi Dhlamini who were admitted at the
Avenues Clinic hospital and are presently searching for Manyere
whose whereabouts are still unknown.
Background
Manyere went
missing after he had taken his vehicle to a garage in Norton about
40km west of Harare on 13 December 2008 until his appearance in
court on 24 December 2008 together with Zimbabwe
Peace Project Director, Jestina Mukoko.
He is charged
under section 23 (1), (2) of the Criminal
Law (Codification and Reform) Act which criminalises acts of
insurgence, banditry, sabotage or terrorism or alternatively Section
143 of the same Act which relates to aggravating circumstances in
relation to malicious damage to property.
His first for bail application
before the High Court on 19 February 2009 was dismissed by Justice
Yunis Omerjee. Justice Omerjee subsequently granted him leave to
apply to the Supreme Court.
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