High Court Judge Justice Munangati-Munongwa has temporarily ended the persecution of Joanah Mamombe & Cecilia Chimbiri by the magistrates’ court by stopping their trial before determination of application for review.
Represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights a member, the two are accused of faking an abduction in 2020 in a bid to soil President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration.
Justice Munangati-Munongwa ordered the duo to file transcript of the trial whose outcome they are challenging by 7 October & the State to file answering affidavits by 28 October. The application for review will be heard on 17 November 2022.
“The trial proceedings against the applicants in Case No. CRB ACC 45-46/20 in the Magistrates Court be and is hereby stayed pending the determination of the application for review in HC 6207/22,”said the judge.
“Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Revai Chimbiri shall file a complete transcript of the trial proceedings not later than 7 October 2022.”
“Chief Magistrate and the State to file opposition papers in HC 6207/22 by 21 October 2022.”
“Mamombe and Chimbiri shall file answering affidavits not later than 28 October 2022 and to file Heads of Arguments in the review matter by 4 November 2022 and the Chief Magistrate and the state to file Heads of Argument by 11 November 2022,”said the judge.
