News:Urgent Chamber Application Against Demo Ban To Be Heard Today
<vote /> Harare High Court judge, Justice Priscilla Chigumba, today presides over an urgent chamber application filed by opposition parties and Harare residents last week challenging the legality of the police ban on all demonstrations in the central business district until September 16.
The applicants; Democratic Restoration Assembly (Dare) leader, Gilbert Dzikiti representing opposition parties under the National Electoral Reform Agenda banner and residents represented by vendors’ leader, Standrick Zvorwadza are arguing that the prohibition order issued under Statutory Instrument 101a is unconstitutional, as police have no authority to issue such a statutory instrument.
Lawyer and opposition People’s Democratic Party leader, Tendai Biti, who filed the legal challenge, accused Mugabe of intimidating the judiciary and violating the Constitution,
What Mugabe is trying to do is breaching the Constitution by assaulting the judiciary and by trying to cause direct and indirect fear into judges.
The parties are suing Harare central district police boss, Chief Superintendent Newbert Saunyama in his personal capacity. They also also want section 27(1) of Posa, which empowers the regulating authority to prohibit the holding of public demonstrations for a specified period in a given area, struck off the country’s statutes because it is “clearly unconstitutional and is not justifiable in a democratic society based on openness, justice, human dignity, equality and freedom”.
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