Kenworthy News Media, March 8, 2013
The case of Maxwell Dlamini, Secretary General of the
Swaziland Youth Congress (SWAYOCO), and former student leader Musa Ngubeni was
postponed yet again Wednesday (6 March 2013), writes Kenworthy News Media.
The case was supposed to have been concluded with the
prosecutor’s final cross-examination of witnesses. But instead the he formally
withdrew from the case, the third prosecutor to do so, citing ‘own work
commitments’, according to a SWAYOCO statement.
Maxwell Dlamini and Musa Ngubeni were abducted and
tortured by Swazi security forces before a democracy rally in 2011. They were
subsequently charged with possession of explosives, allegations they both deny,
but released on bail in 2012 after the international Free Maxwell
Dlamini-campaign had called for their release.
Swaziland’s democratic movement and neutral observers of
the case claim that the real reason for the many postponements, prosecutor
withdrawels, and other discrepancies is the fact that the prosecution have
produced no credible evidence against Dlamini and Ngubeni, and are merely
stalling to inconvenience them as much as possible.
See also
POLICE HARASS STUDENT LEADER
INDEFINITE BAIL FOR STUDENT ACTIVISTS
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