Former Democratic Turnhalle Alliance member of parliament Geoffrey Mwilima was released from prison on remission on Wednesday.
According to Namibia Correctional Service commissioner general Raphael Hamunyela, Mwilima, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison, has been released on conditions that, if broken, will result in his return to prison.
One of the conditions, Hamunyela says, is for Mwilima to identify a place where he will be staying but he is not to leave that place.
“The conditions are many and strictly for individuals based on the crimes they have committed,” he says.
Mwilima has been in incarceration since August 1999 after he was arrested for being a leading figure in the plot to attack government-linked targets at Katima Mulilo in the Zambezi region.
He was sentenced to 18 years in prison following a marathon trial on high treason but his sentence was later reduced to 15 years after the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal against his conviction in an appeal judgement delivered in December 2021.
He started serving his 15-year term in December 2015.
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