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MDC calls for urgent release of 5 MDC members
Movement
for Democratic Change
February
14, 2013
The MDC is seriously
concerned by the unhygienic living conditions of five of its members
who are in remand prison for over 20 months on false
charges of murdering a police officer in Glen View, Harare in
May 2011.
Last Maengahama, a member
of the National Executive, Glen View councillor, Tungamirai Madzokere,
Simon Mapanzure, Yvonne Musarurwa and Rebecca Mafukeni have been
in remand prison.
They are part of the
31 MDC members who are facing fake charges of murdering Petros Mutedza,
police officer in Glen View in 2011. The others were granted bail
last year.
Maengahama, Mapanzure,
Musarurwa and Mafukeni are incarcerated in solitary confinement
at the Chikurubi Maximum Security under appalling conditions.
The four inmates only
see the light of the day when they are going to the High Court for
trial. Most of the time, the inmates will be in leg irons.
This was revealed in
court yesterday by the defence lawyers of the five who were applying
for bail before High Court judge, Justice Chinembiri Bhunu. The
State is opposing bail claiming the five are a flight risk.
The MDC's position
is that the 31 members are innocent and their trial is not prosecution
but persecution and we demand the immediate release from remand
prison of the five remaining members.
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