The young man convicted of insulting ZEC boss, Justice Priscilla Chigumba in a retweet has changed his plea. Tawona Shadaya told Magis...
The young man convicted of insulting ZEC boss, Justice
Priscilla Chigumba in a retweet has changed his plea.
Tawona Shadaya told Magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa that he
made the initial plea under duress. Shadaya engaged Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human
Rights lawyers who filed a notice before the court saying he was pressured to
plead guilty.
The ZLHR lawyers told court that they perused Shadaya’s
docket plea, but could not find details of whether the Twitter account in the
name of Chigumba was fake or real.
They further told court that there is no charge on what
Shadaya did because he merely repeated what the complainant had posted in the
Twitter account.
Magistrate Mugwagwa postponed the matter to October 16.
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