Number 19                                                                                                                          August, 2000

   

What's in the News?


  • Front page
  • Chayafya did not kill Penza
  • Prohibited Immigrant dies in Prison
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Corporal Punishment Still alive

  • Prison Programme extended to Livingstone

  • Step Child not Entitled to Benefits

  • Immigration officers Challenged

  • Death Penalty should be abolished

  • LRF Legal Adviser

  • Know your rights

  • National Registration

    Around The Centres:
  • Widow gets support against property grabbing

  • Man ordered to compensate his brother

  • Six Juveniles released

  • Congolese man abducted two children

  • Four Police officers face legal charges

  • Sue the Police Officer


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    Six Juveniles Released

    IX juveniles of Lusaka’s Msisi compound who were accused of murder in February this year have finally been released.

    Trial commenced on 17th August this year in which the mother to the deceased testified.

    In her testimony, Luni Mwaba said she had known the boys for a long time and has never heard anything bad about them and her late son.

    Trial continued on 25th of the same month in the High Court before justice J.C.Mutale. State Advocate Mrs Petronella Ngulube said the State had decided to enter a nolle prosequi, which effectively meant that the juveniles had been discharged.

    Legal Resources Foundation (LRF) lawyer Mambwe Chipazhya who represented the boys said there was no actual evidence for the charge.

    “We were prepared to make sure that the boys were acquitted. The boys were discharged because the State Advocate entered a nolle prosequi,” said Chipanzhya.

    Chipanzhya further said it was an anti climax because he did not expect it to happen at this stage.

    According to one of the boys talked to by the LRF, the Foundation represented them from the beginning of the case in court until when they were released.

    He said that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had found them with no case to answer.

    “They realised that they had made a mistake in their statements and that the DPP did not find any evidence, so we where released,” said one of the boys.

    |  Front page  | Chayafya did not kill Penza | Prohibited Immigrant dies in Prison |  Letters to the Editor  | Corporal Punishment still alive | Prison programme extended to Livingstone | Step child not entitled to benefits | Immigration officers challenged | Death Penalty should be abolished  |  Know your rights  | National Registration | Widow Gets support against property grabbing  | Man ordered to compensate his brother | Six Juveniles released | Congolese man abducted two children | Four Police officers face legal charges | Sue the Police officer | National Registration |


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