High Court judge Justice Priscilla Chigumba has temporarily suspended Pastor Evan Mawarire’s bail conditions and ordered the release of his passport to enable him to travel to the United States. Mawarire is travelling to visit his family, after he received word that one of his children was unwell.
Mawarire, the founder of #ThisFlag Movement, is facing charges of attempting to subvert a constitutionally elected government after he called for peaceful demonstrations against the government in 2016. He is also facing the same charges for organising protests against President Robert Mugabe in New York City in the United States.
Justice Chigumba ruled:
The applicant’s bail conditions imposed by the High Court on 26 September 2017 are hereby varied as follows; the clerk of court Harare Magistrate Court be and is hereby ordered to surrender to the applicant his passport and the said passport shall be returned to the Registrar of the High Court on 28 November 2017.
He was acquitted on charges of inciting public violence and disorderly conduct at the University of Zimbabwe by Justice Chigumba. Mawarire is represented by Harrison Nkomo of Mhishi Nkomo Legal Practice. Nkomo is also a lawyer for the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights.
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