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Thursday, 11 April 2013 11:00
HARARE - There is no doubt that the media has become an integral part of human existence. The right to correct information is as important as the right to life. People need correct information to be able to make decisions affecting...Read More
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Tuesday, 09 April 2013 11:59
HARARE - The Attorney General’s Office has come up with new allegations against prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, in a bid to bolster its case against the feisty legal practitioner. State prosecutors last Friday served the human rights lawyer’s attorneys...Read More
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Thursday, 04 April 2013 11:03
HARARE - Human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa and four staffers from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s office arrested in March are yet to be furnished with trial dates, with the State yesterday saying it needs more time. Prosecutor Tungamirai Chakurira told the...Read More
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Wednesday, 03 April 2013 10:52
HARARE - Human rights lawyers say the judiciary is under threat following a sustained media onslaught on High Court judge Charles Hungwe, who has been under fire since granting an order to free human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa. Hungwe also...Read More
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Tuesday, 02 April 2013 11:05
HARARE - The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has condemned the midnight visit by two male police officers who snatched human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa’s blankets while in custody. In a petition to the ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs, Supreme...Read More
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News » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Thursday, 28 March 2013 12:29
HARARE - Human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa — fresh from a stint in prison — says serial political flip flopper Jonathan Moyo’s rants against her were unfortunate and replete with distortions. The former junior Information minister wrote a stinging opinion piece...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Thursday, 28 March 2013 11:35
HARARE - Legal experts have slammed the unwarranted attack on High Court judge Charles Hungwe, who has been accused of dispensing night justice by the State-controlled media. Experts told the Daily News that Hungwe did nothing wrong in granting human rights...Read More
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Tuesday, 26 March 2013 10:43
HARARE - Real life experience in Zimbabwe informs us that violence and abusive behaviour have been the stock-in-trade and default positions of those who have wielded power in our country since independence in 1980. This has been particularly so when these...Read More
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Tuesday, 26 March 2013 08:56
HARARE - Police deployed officers in anti- riot gear at the High Court as dozens waited outside the court for prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa’s freedom from jail. High Court judge Joseph Musakwa yesterday ended Mtetwa’s eight-day incarceration which had...Read More
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Monday, 25 March 2013 11:11
HARARE - MDC youth leader Solomon Madzore yesterday demanded the immediate release of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s officers and prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa arrested last week. Madzore made the call soon after landing at the Harare International Airport from...Read More
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Monday, 25 March 2013 11:07
HARARE - The murder trial of 29 Glen View residents accused of killing police inspector Petros Mutedza in May 2011 is to resume today without the lead counsel Beatrice Mtetwa. Mtetwa was arrested when she went to assist Prime Minister Morgan...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Sunday, 24 March 2013 15:09
HARARE - The menacing build-up to a watershed election likely to be held in July seems like a replay of the violent, rigged elections that have plagued Zimbabwe over the past decade. Last week Tsvangirai helplessly watched his staffers being remanded...Read More
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Sunday, 24 March 2013 14:13
HARARE - THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) will tomorrow stage a march at the High Court demanding the release of jailed veteran human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa. The planned march follows a resolution passed at an urgent crisis meeting by...Read More
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Sunday, 24 March 2013 14:10
HARARE - The High Court will tomorrow hear the bail appeal by award-winning human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa seeking her release on bail from Chikurubi Maximum Security Female Remand Prison. The presiding judge, Justice Joseph Musakwa, on Friday said that the...Read More
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Sunday, 24 March 2013 13:36
HARARE - Dozens of protestors thronged the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday to stage a demonstration demanding the release of the nation’s jailed top rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa. Before the demo, anti-riot police swarmed the courts, while others were milling around at...Read More
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