A Swaziland High Court full bench will next week hear an application brought by Swazi political formations and trade unions, which are seeking an order allowing incarcerated People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) President Mario Masuku’s friends and other people to visit him at the Matsapha maximum security prison.
Masuku is charged with sedition, arising from an alleged case of terrorist activity.
According to a report in the Swazi Observer today (12 December 2008), PUDEMO’s Secretary General Siphasha Dlamini, in her affidavit, says since Masuku was arrested, visitation rights and access to him by friends, colleagues and associates had been extremely limited.
She says that on separate occasions British Deputy Commissioner Mark Norton, Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions General Secretary Jan Sithole and a delegation from the Council of Swaziland Churches were refused the right to see Masuku in Matsapha.
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