Beatrice Mtetwa was recently disqualified in her quest to represent her client Hopewell Chin’ono, a distinguished journalist who has been serially exposing grand corruption in Zimbabwe. Chin’ono has been in custody since 20 July 2020 after being arrested live on camera in his bedroom when police forcibly broke his front door to gain entry into his house.
It is a very unusual phenomenon in Africa to get a statement about the justice system in an African country engendering such strong feelings of injustice as has happened in relation to recent developments in Zimbabwe.
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