By Mary Taruvinga
MDC Alliance Harare West MP Joanna Mamombe and activist Cecilia Chimbiri will only know their fate Wednesday after High Court judge, Justice Tawanda Chitapi fell sick resulting in him failing to deliver his judgment on their bail appeal.
Chitapi was reported to have developed a toothache making him unable to read out his ruling.
The two political activists are detained at the Chikurubi Female Prison facing charges of breaching Covid-19 regulations after holding a press conference at Harare Magistrate’s Court last March.
They were calling for the release of fellow MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe.
Haruzivishe has since been sentenced to 14 months in prison on charges of inciting public violence.
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By Mary Taruvinga
HARARE West lawmaker Joanna Mamombe and MDC Alliance youth activist, Cecilia Chimbiri have approached the Magistrates’ Court again seeking new bail on changed circumstances.
The two are being accused of breaching Covid-19 regulations after they allegedly held a press conference calling for the release of fellow MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe.
Haruzivishe was this week handed a 14-month jail term at the same courts.
Mamombe and Chimbiri were first denied bail by a local magistrate before they made an appeal at the High Court last month but with no success.
Their lawyer Alec Muchadehama told Harare magistrate Richard Mangosi there were no compelling reasons warranting his client’s continued detention and as such they were suitable candidates for bail.
By Mary Taruvinga
MDC Harare West MP Joanna Mamombe and MDC Alliance youth activist Cecilia Chimbiri will remain locked up after their bail ruling was postponed again Wednesday.
The presiding magistrate, Vongai Muchuchuti failed to hand down her ruling as promised adding her judgment would be further delayed as she was travelling.
She will only be available Thursday afternoon to make the ruling.
Mamombe and Chimbiri are accused of breaching Covid-19 regulations after they held an anti-government protest calling for the release of fellow MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe.
Haruzivishe is in remand prison facing kidnapping charges.
Meanwhile, the saga between the late Waverley Empire’s founder, Victor Cohen’s daughter and nephew continued at the High Court Wednesday.
By Mary Taruvinga
MDC Alliance Harare West MP Joanna Mamombe and party activist Cecilia Chimbiri will languish in jail after their bail application was turned down Thursday by Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti.
The two are being charged for breaching Covid-19 regulations after they held a demonstration at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts over a week ago.
Muchuchuti said if granted bail, the political activists were likely to commit similar offences.
“It is clear the accused will continue committing similar offences as supported by the fact that they have more pending criminal cases,” she ruled.
The two deny the allegations and maintain that they did not break any law.