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By A Correspondent| The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services yesterday failed to release opposition leader Jacob Ngarivhume despite the High Court quashing both his conviction and sentence. According to Transform Zimbabwe, the prison officer at Harare Central prisons told them that a warrant of liberation had not been issued by the High Court hence his…
from MARCUS MUSHONGA in Harare, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Bureau HARARE, (CAJ News) - A ZIMBABWEAN court has annulled and set aside the conviction and jailing of opposition political party leader, Jacob Ngarivhume, for allegedly inciting people to revolt against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration three years ago. Ngarivhume, the leader of Transform Zimbabwe political party, has been
Responding to yesterday’s High Court acquittal of opposition leader, Jacob Ngarivhume, who was sentenced in April to 48 months imprisonment for leading protests against government corruption, Khanyo Farisè, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Southern Africa, said: While his conviction has now been quashed, it is unconscionable that Jacob Ngarivhume spent eight months in prison simply for organising a peaceful protest. He should never have been tried, let alone convicted in the first