SOCIAL movement #ThisFlag leader and cleric, Evan Mawarire,
was yesterday released on $2 000 bail after languishing at the Harare Remand
Prison for two weeks following his arrest on charges of trying to subvert a
constitutionally-elected government.
High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi granted him bail,
coupled with stringent reporting conditions.
As part of his bail conditions, Mawarire was ordered to
report three times a week at Harare Central Police Station.
Mawarire is being charged with contravening section
22(2)(a)(iii) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act or in the
alternative being charged with inciting the public to commit public violence as
envisaged in section 187(1)(b) as read with section 36(1)(a) of the Code.
In his bail application, the cleric maintained his
innocence, challenging the State to prove if his utterances, where he urged
citizens to stay away from work and remain peaceful, could be perceived as
inciting violence or being an attempt to overthrow President Emmerson
Mnangagwa’s government. Newsday
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