By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent
THE lawyer representing 12 MDC Alliance officials, arrested last month at the party’s Chinhoyi offices holding a meeting allegedly in defiance of Covid-19 lockdown regulations, has applied for refusal of further remand.
Fortune Murisi argued the accused persons did not commit any offence and described their arrests as unlawful.
On Friday, he lodged the application before Chinhoyi magistrate Lisa Mutendereki, who deferred her ruling to 31 March 2021.
Said Murisi after the court hearing; “We applied for refusal of further remand, the argument being that no offence was committed neither a reasonable suspicion that an offence was committed.