NICOLE FRITZ: Ruling against brave Beatrice Mtetwa invites only outrage 🔒
If, in these quasi-apocalyptic times, there were to be a type of Noah’s ark rerun, but instead of saving pairs of animals to repopulate a post-flood earth only the most exceptional representative of every profession and skill set was to be saved for a post-pandemic world, there’d probably be little disagreement that the place reserved for the human rights lawyer would have to be filled by Zimbabwean Beatrice Mtetwa.
She may well be called on: Reporters Without Borders has estimated that of more than a 100 press freedom violations linked to the coverage of the Covid pandemic recorded in Africa since its start, a quarter have occurred in Zimbabwe. Because legal systems can be put to frighteningly petty ends, the Harare magistrate’s court has now ruled that Mtetwa must withdraw from her legal representation of Chin’ono, maintaining that she has scandalised the court. In doing so, the magistrate denies Chin’ono his right of legal representation of his choosing but also seeks to intimidate Mtetwa.
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