Malawi Police on Thursday arrested lawyer Shepherd Mumba in connection with the signing of bail papers for Ralph Kasambara, a prominent critic of President Bingu wa Mutharika and former attorney general. Police claimed Kasambara’s first release from Chichiri Maximum Security Prison had procedural infringement after his arrest on accusation of occasioning bodily harm on a […]
Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch has called on Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika to end crackdown on growing band of critics and activists. The HRW orbseved that the government’s recent surge of arrests and threats against critics reflects its broader crackdown on free speech and other basic rights, “Arresting government critics is just the latest sign […]
Nobody at the Nyasa Times is enjoying the new lows that Malawi is descending to with each day, under the tyrannical rule of President Bingu wa Mutharika. The sight of youths and women engaging in running battles with the brutal Malawi Police, when the youths and women could have been busy with gainful activities, hurts […]
Former Malawi president Bakili Muluzi has asked his doctors to allow him return home from South Africa where he travelled to receive medical treatment following the arrest of his son, lawmaker and presidential hopeful Atupele Muluzi. Atupele was arrested by Police in Lilongwe on Tuesday as he was travelling to Blantyre. He has been detained […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika’s ruthless regime of intimidation continues in a country where he has stifled all forms of democratic engagement and human rights as he has now ordered the re-arrest of his former Attorney General Ralph Kasambara, some lawyers and judges. According to Nyasa Times sources, Mutharika has directred the state-run corruption-busting body Anti Corruption […]
Malawi’s Minister of Information and Civic Education Patricia Kaliati has challenged President Bingu wa Mutharika’s first Attorney General Ralph Kasambara, now government’s fierse critic, that he has erred by suing her personally since her actions are on behalf of government as its spokesperson. Lawyer-cum-politician Kasambara is demanding K60 million from the minister over her remarks […]
Police in Blantyre on Tuesday re-arrested associates of former Malawian Attorney General, Ralph Kasambara, a prominent critic of President Bingu wa Mutharika, who were freed on bail. Southern Region Police spokesperson Nicholas Gondwa confirmed Kasambara’s security team—Arthur Chikankheni, Mayamiko Kadango, Brian Magoya, Patrick Gadama and Ali Kaka—who were arrested with him were nabbed again. They are being accused of assaulting a gang of […]
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika is reported to be annoyed with reports that state lawyers are refusing to prosecute prominent lawyer Ralph Kasambara in a “politicaly motivated” case. Kasambara is charged with offences of kidnapping and assault but currently out on bail Ministry of Justice spokesperson, Apoche Itimu, said the lawyers are “ giving out […]
What actually happened is a subject of speculation up to now because both the Police and Ralph Kasambara, the man at the center of it all are not coming out clear about it. However what followed it is what is rough in that it reveals the kind of unsafe place Malawians are locked at; and […]
Former Malawi Attorney General Ralph Kasambara , who was arrested by Malawi Police, recently has sent a ‘vote of thanks’ to all people who supported him in any way during the past two weeks which he has been caged and has once again hit at the President Bingu wa Mutharika administration for being autocratic. In […]
Malawi’s outspoken and foul-mouthed Minister of Information and Government Spokesperson Patricia Kaliati will not be paying K60 million as demanded by caged presidential critic Ralph Kasambara for defaming because she denies the accusations and that she is also facing bankruptcy proceedings after failing to settle a K300, 000 debt. Kasambara’s lawyer, Wapona Kita, has written […]
Maravi People’s Party (MPP) president and the party’s sole member of parliament, Mr Uladi Mussa, a former member of the ruling DPP told parliament t he knew the regime thugs who are on crackdown to growing band of critics as he brought them to the ruling party. Mussa said the thugs who attacked anti Mutharika […]
Respectable politician and former justice minister, Henry Duncan Phoya (HDP) on Tuesday cautioned Minister of Justice, Ephraim Chiume, for making “serious allegations” in parliament against critic of President Bingu wa Mutharika, Ralph Kasambara. Chiume, making a statement in Parliament, alleged that Kasambara applied Nali chilli on the private parts of a gang of three men. […]
Malawi’s minister of justice, Ephraim Chiume on Tuesday told parliament that President Bingu wa Mutharika’s first Attorney General turned stern critic, Ralph Kasambara, should be released on police bail because he is not fit and well to continue being on ‘detention without trial.’ Police later brought bail papers for Kasambara admitted at Mwaiwathu Hospital for heart […]
The state-run corruption-busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), has summoned another lawyer who worked on obtaining bail ‘political prisoner’ former Attorney-General Ralph Kasambara to quiz him his role on how they obtained bail while courts are on strike. ACB has already interrogated two lawyers from Kasambara’s law firm, Ralph and Arnolds, Wapona Kita and Jonathan Kara on […]
Lawyer Wapona Kita, representing critic of Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika, former Attorney General Ralph Kasambara, on Monday appeared before the graft bursting body, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Blantyre. ACB boss Alexious Nampota summoned Kita and his workmate at Ralph and Arnolds law firm, Jonathan Kara, to explain how they managed to get […]
Malawi opposition parties have ratcheted up political pressure on President Bingu wa Mutharika to release detained outspoken critic Ralph Kasambara by Monday or face ‘social discontent’. The parties said Mutharika administration should release Kasambara by 12 PM of Monday, 20th February 2012 or else they would use “political means” to have him freed. They noted […]
Malawians of concern to their country have been asked to collectively stand up, resist and fight recent advances by President Bingu wa Mutharika’s administration which signify a blatant abuse and total disregard of human rights and the rule of law that are steadily taking the country back to the dark days of autocratic rule. The […]