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Chief
Justice Chidyausiku dismisses bail application
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
April 06,
2009
Chief Justice Godfrey
Chidyausiku today dismissed a bail application filed by two MDC
officials and a journalist who are facing trumped up charges of
banditry, insurgency and terrorism.
Chris Dhlamini, MDC head
of security, Gandhi Mudzingwa, Prime Minister Hon. Morgan Tsvangirai's
former aide and freelance journalist Andrison Manyere have been
in remand prison since December last year.
Justice Chidyausiku denied
bail to the three arguing that there was no misdirection to an earlier
ruling by High Court Judge Justice Yunus Omerjee.
However, MDC lawyers
are going to file another urgent bail application at the High Court
tomorrow applying for the immediate release of the three.
The new bail application
is expected to be heard on Wednesday.
The MDC views
the continued detention of the three political detainees as going
against the spirit and letter of the Global
Political Agreement (GPA) that was signed by the three main
political parties last year.
The continued detention
of MDC activists has nothing to do with the law but is a product
of political machinations of the residual elements in Zanu PF and
the securocrats who are waging a perpetual battle to scuttle change
by undermining the inclusive government.
The MDC calls for the
immediate release of the three prisoners and the scores of MDC activists
who are being held in secret locations after they were abducted
by State security agents last year.
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