Journalist and filmmaker Hopewell Chin’ono said that Harare lawyer Fadzayi Mahere has been convicted of breaking a law that doesn’t exist.
Mahere was on Wednesday, 05 April 2023, convicted of charges of publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the State by a Harare magistrate.
Mahere, who is also the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson, was found guilty by Harare Regional Magistrate Taurai Manuwere after a full trial.
Posting on Twitter, Chin’ono said he was arrested the same week as Mahere and his lawyer Harrison Nkomo went to the High Court to challenge the charge. He wrote:
I was arrested the same week as Fadzayi Mahere and accused of having done the same thing and charged under the same law.
My lawyer Harrison Nkomo went to the High Court to challenge the charge on the basis that the law being used didn’t exist.
The High Court agreed & quashed it.
Mahere allegedly tweeted that a baton-wielding police officer enforcing COVID-19 lockdown regulations had fatally struck one Rebecca Musariri’s child in Harare.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) refuted the claim and said the child was not killed.
A video of the incident went viral in 2020, with the mother clinging to a police officer claiming he had killed her baby.
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Zanu pf judicially arrest people who are fighting for the freedom of all Zimbabweans. Now we have concrete evidence that the President is the number 1 corrupt person in the land and his relatives and close thugs are commiting Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 Economic Crimes. Its all over the news with full evidence but ZACC and ZRP have developed cold feet. 🥶 ED and crew are looting Billions out of Zimbabwe. Please arrest the President and his angels of corruption.
You are confusing issues or hou are simply confused. Al Jazeera is not a law enforcement agent, nor does it have any jurisdiction any where. No court will try anyone on the basis of what has been ‘alleged in a report either published or broadcast. The people best qualified to make an investigation are the police according to the powers invested in them by the constitution. Al Jazeera is a commercial enterprise, on the lookout for consumers of their product. I really don’t understand why some gullible Zimbabwe are so excited about its allegations. Don’t forget, or you show know that no one is guilty until proved so by a competent court of law, of the court of the land. As for Hopewell, Mahere is a lawyer. She can speak for herself. She can make her own tweets. She can do it agein if she sees fit. Ever wondered why Chingono is not employed or contracted by anyone?