Own Correspondent

MDC Alliance National Vice Chairman Job Sikhala will remain in prison after Magistrate Ncube dismissed his application challenging refusal of remand. He says State succeeded in proving that there is reasonable suspicion that Hon. Sikhala committed an offence.

Sikhala is one of the latest arrested after being in hiding for weeks following police accusations that he was mobilising anti-government protests.

The latest arrests came as journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and opposition politician and government critic, Jacob Ngarivhume, were denied bail for a third time since being arrested for agitating for protests.

The demonstrations were banned because of Zimbabwe’s anti-coronavirus measures.

Ngarivhume, the leader of Transform Zimbabwe, and Chin’ono have been in jail since July 20 on charges of inciting public violence.

More than a dozen demonstrators who tried to protest, were detained from the streets. They were charged with inciting violence and then freed on bail.