ZANU-PF appointee and card-carrying member, Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, refused to grant bail to MDC activists and a independent journalist who were abducted by the CIO, ZRP, ZNA last year.

The State accuses the three of plotting to overthrow the illegal regime headed by Robert Mugabe last year.

Chidyausiku, a man with multiple farms siezed from their rightful owners, the same man who has benefited from the ZANU-PF corruption over the last ten years, refused to grant them bail saying an earlier High Court ruling was okay.

The three will likely spent more days and weeks in Zimbabwe’s notorious prisons.

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MDC Pressroom–Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku today dismissed a bail application filed by two MDC officials and a journalist who are facing trumped up charges of banditry, insurgency and terrorism.

Chris Dhlamini, MDC head of security, Gandhi Mudzingwa, Prime Minister Hon. Morgan Tsvangirai’s former aide and freelance journalist Andrison Manyere have been in remand prison since December last year.

Justice Chidyausiku denied bail to the three arguing that there was no misdirection to an earlier ruling by High Court Judge Justice Yunus Omerjee.

However, MDC lawyers are going to file another urgent bail application at the High Court tomorrow applying for the immediate release of the three.

The new bail application is expected to be heard on Wednesday. The MDC views the continued detention of the three political detainees as going against the spirit and letter of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) that was signed by the three main political parties last year.

The continued detention of MDC activists has nothing to do with the law but is a product of political machinations of the residual elements in Zanu PF and the securocrats who are waging a perpetual battle to scuttle change by undermining the inclusive government.

The MDC calls for the immediate release of the three prisoners and the scores of MDC activists who are being held in secret locations after they were abducted by State security agents last year.