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Citizens Coalition for Change interim leader Jameson Timba and 64 of his supporters will remain in jail after Magistrate Collet Ncube denied them bail yesterday.
They had filed a fresh bail application stating that circumstances had changed.
Their lawyer Webster Jiti said, “The basis of the application was that there is now a lapse of considerable time since the accused persons were brought behind bars and bearing in mind that we have at least 65 witnesses going to the defence case it will take us several months to complete”.
However, they were all acquitted on the charge of disorderly conduct and 12 freed individuals for having no connection with the alleged offences.
On Monday, the presiding magistrate ruled that their lawyers did not give new circumstances warranting their clients’ release.
They are planning to appeal against the ruling.
Timba and supporters are accused of holding an unsanctioned meeting at Timba’s residence in Avondale on June 16 this year.
The State alleges that they attacked officers who had come to check on what was happening at the house.
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