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Another MDC activist remanded in custody
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
June 28, 2011
Tendai Chinyama, the MDC Kambuzuma district Organising Secretary
was yesterday remanded in custody by a Harare magistrate.
Chinyama, who
is facing allegations of murdering a police officer in Glen View
3 last month, was abducted on Thursday, last week at his workplace
in Belvedere, Harare. He was found at Matapi police station in Mbare
after lawyers tracked him down. Another activist, Lecture Chiturumani
who was arrested on Thursday on the same charge was released on
Monday after being detained for five days at Matapi police station.
Chinyama's
detention brings to 24 the number of MDC activists who are in remand
prison facing allegations
of murdering a police officer. The police officer was murdered
by unknown revellers at a nightclub in Glen View. Judgment on their
bail ruling is yet to be passed by High Court judge, Tendai Uchena.
Meanwhile, High Court judge, Chinembiri Bhunu yesterday
postponed to Friday 1 July, the hearing of a bail application pending
trial filed by Councillor Oddrey Sydney Chirombe of Ward 33 in Budiriro,
two MDC employees, Jepheas Moyo and Abina Rutsito.
The postponement came after Edmore Nyazamba of the
Attorney General's office requested for more time to respond
to the bail application by Moyo, Councillor Chirombe and Rutsito's
lawyers in which they argued that their clients were victims of
"profiling", a practice that has been directly outlawed
in certain jurisdictions.
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