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Pastor Mawarire Faces Death Penalty After Sudden Treason Charge
13 July 2016
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UPDATE: 1600Hrs –  The lawyer representing Pastor Evan Mawarire, Harrison Nkomo of ZLHR, has challenged the new charges pressed against the clergyman of attempting to subvert a constitutional government and arguing that the arrest and appearance in court of Pastor Evan Mawarire are unconstitutional. The Court is on a 10 minute adjournment to allow Prosecutors to review some cases cited by Nkomo and before they respond to the challenge mounted by the human rights lawyer.
 
Staff Reporter | Pastor Evan Mawarire this afternoon joined the long list of Zimbabwe’s persecuted opposition leaders, who include Morgan Tsvangirai after he was charged with ‘subverting a constitutional government,’ a crime that carries the death penalty.
It has become customary in Zimbabwe’s history that the state evokes draconian pieces of legislation in order to silence opponents.
In this instant the authorities have changed/amended charges pressed against Mawarire to subverting a constitutional government in contravention of Section 22 (2) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.
Scores of people were gathered outside the court in solidarity.
In 2004 veteran opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai who is now a pale shadow of his former self was also charged with trying to kill President Robert Mugabe and stage a military coup, faced the death penalty if convicted. The case dragged on for months but was not concluded without leaving the once vibrant opposition party fragmented.

13 Replies to “Pastor Mawarire Faces Death Penalty After Sudden Treason Charge”

  1. Get all the human Rights Organisations on the Continent and abroad on board as well as celebrities from around the globe including Pope Francis

  2. Get all the human Rights Organisations on the Continent and abroad on board as well as celebrities from around the globe including Pope Francis

  3. Guys this is just scare tactics,but it won’t work.They cannot Convict him and for sure they now know how Zimbabweans love this Pastor and we will not take this lying low.We now names of Zanu Officials,there is lots of ways of getting sweet revenge on them.Many of them like to Drink and they will have to watch what they eat,cars they drive,when they travel etc coz there are many ways of sorting them out.Hell some of them have Children in the Diaspora and we know their names.This will only Trigger much more Retribution for we are more than willing to settle our scores with Zanu PF in a very nasty way.They should heed this warning.

  6. Zimbabweans are not worth all this,they deserve the kind of leadership that they have.God bless Mawarire.

  7. Zimbabweans are not worth all this,they deserve the kind of leadership that they have.God bless Mawarire.

  8. Let Mugabe and his thugs know that we will fight with all we have. Whatever they call themselves, they are not a legitimate government. They rigged elections and they lost the 2008 elections but chose to subvert an elected MDC-T Government. In fact it is Mugabe and his thugs who should face treason charges. Time will tell. We are getting into the interesting phase of the endgame. They will surely fall in disgrace. Zvaakuzopera. These are just last kicks of a dying horse.

  9. Let Mugabe and his thugs know that we will fight with all we have. Whatever they call themselves, they are not a legitimate government. They rigged elections and they lost the 2008 elections but chose to subvert an elected MDC-T Government. In fact it is Mugabe and his thugs who should face treason charges. Time will tell. We are getting into the interesting phase of the endgame. They will surely fall in disgrace. Zvaakuzopera. These are just last kicks of a dying horse.

  10. They will never convict him. Tinenge tavabvisa chete. They are not even a legitimate government and so there is no subversion there. They are a puppet government who stole electoral victory and all those issues are going to come back to haunt them. The case will never be concluded I tell you.

  11. They will never convict him. Tinenge tavabvisa chete. They are not even a legitimate government and so there is no subversion there. They are a puppet government who stole electoral victory and all those issues are going to come back to haunt them. The case will never be concluded I tell you.

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