Malawi’s leading human rights watchdog Center for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has urged opposition parties to use their numerical advantage in Parliament to push for reforms in archaic sedition and treason laws instead of just being cry babies when they have the capacity to push for such changes. In their recent statement made available […]
The use of sedition laws to punish government critics is inconsistent with the spirit of the new Malawi Constitution which guarantees freedom of opinion, expression and the press; law scholars have said, revealing that the High Court declared the sedition laws invalid. The comments come in the wake of the arrest of opposition members charged […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) supporters on Monday erupted into songs and dances as Police granted bail to their member Ulemu Msungama after his arrest Sunday on charges he sought to spark a revolt against President Peter Mutharika. Msungama – who stood for MCP in Lilongwe City North East parliamentary election in the May 2014 polls and lost […]
Malawi Police have charged opposition MCP member Ulemu Msungama for sedition over a over a conversation on WhatsApp that purportedly talks about how President Peter Mutharika could be forced out of power. Here is part of the WhatsApp conversation the state intelligence has leaked. 27/01/2016, 21:22 – +1 (404) 617-9530: A failed state 27/01/2016, 21:23 […]
A prominent Malawi Congress Party (MCP) official, Ulemu Msungama, has been charged with sedition over a conversation on WhatsApp that purportedly talks about how President Peter Mutharika could be toppled, police said on Monday. Msungama—who was being held at Kanengo Police Station in Lilongwe before being moved to Area 30 police headquarters—was formally told of his […]
Police in Blantyre have arrested journalist Justice Mponda for publishing stories on Malawi Voice online deemed seditious, false and treasonous aimed at fomenting public anger against the Joyce Banda administration, Nyasa Times has established. Mponda was picked in the wee hours of Monday by heavily armed police officers in an armored vehicle at his Chiwembe residence in […]
A Magistrate, who was supposed to determine bail application for five activists being held in connection with a peaceful protest in the capital Lilongwe , did not show up for the ruling and police took them back in their custody. The five – Billy Mayaya, Habiba Osman a lawyer with the development NGO Norwegian Church […]
Blantyre Magistrate Court on Friday granted bail to anti-government activist Black Moses who is facing sedition charges but police rearrested him on courtroom doorsteps immediately after the court granted bail. His lawyer Lusungu Gondwe of Ralph and Arnold, successfully applied bail after he has spendweeks in prison on remand. Presiding magistrate, Principal Magistrate Innocent Nebi […]