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MDC-T MP's case against Mugabe referred to Supreme Court
19 Jan 2012 at 10:38hrs | Views
Mutare Magistrate, Trynos Wutahwashe has granted Chimanimani West MP, Lynette Karenyi Kore the right to have her case in which she is facing charges of undermining the authority of or insulting the President to be transferred to the Supreme Court.
The State is claiming that Kore who is the MDC Women's Assembly Organising Secretary was arrested in December last year on allegations that she addressed an MDC-T rally in Chimanimani and undermined the office of the President during her speech.
After her arrest, Kore had to spend the Christmas holidays in remand prison after the State invoked Section 121 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act and barred her from getting bail.
Magistrate Wutawashe said the Supreme Court will make a determination on the violations of her freedom of expression, conscience, political rights and liberty as enshrined in the declaration of human rights.
The trial for Kore should have kicked off two weeks ago at the Mutare Magistrates' Courts but failed when her lawyer David Tandire applied for the matter to be referred to the Supreme Court citing among other issues, that her rights, as provided for in the Constitution of Zimbabwe had been violated.
The State represented by Michael Mugabe and Fletcher Karombe was opposing the application on the basis that it was not only "frivolous and vexatious" but a gross abuse of the judicial system.
The State is claiming that Kore who is the MDC Women's Assembly Organising Secretary was arrested in December last year on allegations that she addressed an MDC-T rally in Chimanimani and undermined the office of the President during her speech.
After her arrest, Kore had to spend the Christmas holidays in remand prison after the State invoked Section 121 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act and barred her from getting bail.
The trial for Kore should have kicked off two weeks ago at the Mutare Magistrates' Courts but failed when her lawyer David Tandire applied for the matter to be referred to the Supreme Court citing among other issues, that her rights, as provided for in the Constitution of Zimbabwe had been violated.
The State represented by Michael Mugabe and Fletcher Karombe was opposing the application on the basis that it was not only "frivolous and vexatious" but a gross abuse of the judicial system.
Source - Byo24News
