Prodemocracy supporters are saying Dlamini is being harassed
by police.
Dlamini faces charges that he was in posession of
explosives in April 2011. He had spent nearly 10 months in jail on remand
before being released on bail in February 2012, after an international
campaign.
Dlamini denies the charges and says he was tortured by
police into making a confession.
Dlamini’s rearrest sparked anger among supporters. The
Swaziland Youth League (SWAYOCO), writing on Facebook called it ‘disgusting’.
Dlamini told readers of Facebook, the police had told him
he had not been keeping to the conditions of his bail, which included reporting
to Mbabane Police station three times a week.
Dlamini, who is president of the Swaziland National Union
of Students, said he had kept to all bail conditions, but the police were so
inefficient they had failed to keep proper records of his visits.
‘It has always been the state which has failed to keep
proper records and their inefficiencies on their part that I was not captured
on the records book at times.
‘This was because either the record book was missing or
the office responsible was absent from work,’ he wrote.
See also
INDEFINITE BAIL FOR STUDENT ACTIVISTS
STUDENT LEADER ESCAPES ARREST
POLICE TORTURE STUDENT LEADER
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