After hours of waiting for the trial to start, the defense counsel and the state agreed to a postponement of the case to 20 November. High Court Judge, Justice Chinembiri Bhunu was supposed to preside over the case.
“We have agreed with the state that the case be postponed to tomorrow because of the power cuts. It was an agreement that we reached together with the state,” said defense lawyer, Gift Mtisi.
The activists face charges of murdering police Inspector, PetrosMutedza in May last year after he had gone to Glen View to investigate an illegal meeting the MDC-T members were holding.
The MDC-T activists have been languishing in remand prison since late last year.
Three of them have been released on bail. Of the three, Cynthia Manjoro was the first to be released after the defense counsel led by Beatrice Mtetwa managed to convince the court that she was not near the scene on the day Inspector Mutedza was murdered.
MDC-T Youth Assembly President, Solomon Madzore and another activist, Lovemore Taruvinga were released on 13 November after being granted bail.
The MDC-T has maintained that charges against the activists are “trumped up”.
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