
Mawarire has been a strident critic of former President
Robert Mugabe, who was forced to resign after 37 years in power last week under
pressure from the army and ruling ZANU-PF party.
"This could be evidence of a freer Zimbabwe but this
case had no legs to stand on. I think a lot more needs to be seen to determine
whether this is a free judiciary going forward," Mawarire told reporters
in the court room soon after Judge Priscilla Chigumba's judgment.
Critics allege that Zimbabwe's courts for decades have been
used as a tool of political repression.
There was a sigh of relief from the handful of people in
the court when the ruling was made.
The pastor's #ThisFlag movement had been a thorn in the
side of the former Mugabe government. In 2016, he led a stay-at-home
demonstration that lead to the first of his several arrests.
- Reuters
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