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MDC Alliance National Youth Chairperson Obey Sithole on Wednesday said that the right to bail is no longer available for political prisoners.
Last month birthed an increase in many abductions, kidnappings, beatings of citizens in Zimbabwe following the 31 July movement march that was targeted at fighting corruption, human rights violations and the removal of the ruling party ZANU PF.
Amongst the arrested were Jacob Ngarivhume,Hopewell Chin’ono,Godfrey Kurauone and many others who then went on to protest on the day who included Tsitsi Dambarnga,Fadzayi Mahere amongst them.
Obey Sithole,Ostallous Siziba,Job Sikhala and other activists are still in hiding as they are wanted by the Zimbabwe Republic Police for ‘interviews’.
In his press statement Sithole said, “MDC Alliance Youth Assembly Organizing Secretary Godfrey Kurauone remains incarcerated in Mnangagwa’s dungeons of terror after he was denied bail. Such has become the nature of Mnangagwa’s old deception, the abuse of the Judiciary and the state to persecute political critics by prosecution.”
“It is increasingly becoming a norm under Mnangagwa that the Constitutionally granted right to bail has suddenly become unavailable for political prisoners. The Judiciary system has suddenly redefined the right to bail to some legal favor unavailable and beyond the reach of political opponents of the ruling party. It is obvious that the entitlement to bail should be satisfied by very simple essential elements…”
“The fact that Kurauone has already been convicted before trial confirms clearly that our justice system is in intensive care and the judiciary has become a weapon to silence voices of dissent. This tragic reality in which activists are consistently subjected to require our uncompromising fight for a better and just Zimbabwe. This is just but one of the many glaring examples of Judicial capture and Judges willfully descending into the political arena. “
Godfrey Kurauone is currently at Masvingo Remand Prison,ever since his arrest on the 31st of July 2020,when he was reporting as part of his bail conditions on another bizarre case of political persecution.
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