By Mary Taruvinga
JOURNALIST Blessed Mhlanga has taken Harare magistrate Ngoni Nduna to court demanding the immediate release of fellow scribe Hopewell Chin’ono’s testimony on the state of the Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
Last year, Chin’ono gave testimony before Magistrate Nduna exposing the horrid living conditions at the over-crowed prison where he was being held when he was arrested for inciting public violence.
However, the testimony was done before camera with journalists and public barred from the proceedings following the state’s request on the grounds the information was sensitive and a threat to the prisons and national security.
aside Harare Magistrate Ngoni Nduna’s controversial decision barring
prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa from representing
freelance journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and disqualified the judicial
officer from presiding over the criminal trial of the media
practitioner.
filed an application for review seeking an order to set aside a ruling
by Magistrate Nduna disqualifying the multiple award winning human
rights lawyer from representing the media practitioner.
In the application for review filed by Doug Coltart of Zimbabwe
Lawyers for Human Rights and argued by Advocate Taona Nyamakura,
Mtetwa and Chin’ono contended that Magistrate Nduna’s ruling was
unconstitutional and effectively deprives the freelance journalist of
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FILE: Beatrice Mtetwa, a member of Zimbabwe Lawyers of Human Rights, talks to reporters outside the Harare Magistrates Court in Harare, Zimbabwe, Aug. 18, 2020. Mtetwa said she did nothing wrong in her quest to secure bail for journalist Chin’ono.
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High Court Judge Justice Happias Zhou will on Tuesday preside over the hearing and determination of an application filed by human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa together with freelance journalist Hopewell Chin’ono seeking an order to set aside a ruling by Harare Magistrate Ngoni Nduna disqualifying her from representing the media practitioner.