HARARE – Lawyers for four supporters of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday asked for the Supreme Court to rule on whether their detention in secret camps last year was legal.
Lawyer Charles Kwaramba said he had filed for permission to seek a Supreme Court ruling on their detentions and to postpone their trial in a lower court on charges of seeking to topple President Robert Mugabe.
‘What we are saying is this court should refer this matter to the Supreme Court and while we are waiting for the Supreme Court to make its determination, may this prosecution be stayed,’ he told reporters.
Four activists in Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have been indicted on charges of recruiting people to undergo military training in neighbouring Botswana as part of plans to depose Mugabe.
The activists have denied the charges, as has the government in Botswana.
Mugabe has refused to see the charges withdrawn, insisting the activists must go through the court process.
– Nampa-AFP
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