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Another court day for the 29: Day 5
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
June
11, 2012
Today, Monday 11 June 2012 at 1000hrs, the 29 are appearing in court
again for their 5th day of their trial before Justice Chinembiri
Bhunu. They are facing fake
charges of murdering a police officer at a popular beer outlet
in Glenview on the 29th of May last year.
The 29 are in
remand prison most of them since May 2011. This is a clear evidence
of absence of justice, law, freedom and the respect of our own constitution
and agreements. Their arrest and detention is both political and
illegal hence unconstitutional. Last week four out of twenty state
witnesses were testifying, no one of them was uttering substance,
it was stage managed.
The Attorney
General, ZRP Commissioner General and other service chiefs have
been open on several instances proclaiming their faithfulness to
the former ruling party ZANU PF. On several occasions MDC members
and rights activists have been abducted, arrested, tortured, brutalized,
detained, beaten, maimed and killed in cold blood by ZANU PF using
the securocrats. President Tsvangirai has on several occasions castigated
this outrageous behaviors and call for peace. Recently they killed
baba Cephas Magura in Mudzi, the killers are known and one of them
is a Member of Parliament for Mudzi North, Kachepa, he is a free
man.
The defense
council comprising of senior Human rights lawyers Beatrice Mtetwa,
Selby Hwacha, Aleck Muchadehama, Charles Kwaramba, Gift Mtisi and
Jeremiah Bhamu has submitted fresh Bail application before Justice
Bhunu on Tuesday. We are still waiting for the ruling as the trial
progresses. On countless occasions the 29 have been denied bail
at the High Court, but on this we are still very hopeful.
They are innocent
until proven guilty. They deserve to enjoy their liberty as enshrined
in our own constitution, old or new. We demand their immediate and
unconditional release.
We remain focused
and united in these trying times. Let's all come, court O,
in solidarity with our Cdes.
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