Biti bail hearing postponed because AG ‘forgot papers’

By Lance Guma
24 June 2008

The MDC said on Tuesday that the bail hearing of Secretary General Tendai Biti was postponed, because the Attorney General’s office claimed they had forgotten their paper work back at the office. Biti has been in custody since June 12 when police arrested him at Harare Airport upon his return from South Africa. They have accused him of treason, on the basis of a discredited document outlining plans for a change of government. They also accuse him of announcing election results ahead of the compromised Zimbabwe Election Commission.

Meanwhile the MDC says it still does not know where the 60 victims of political violence, arrested Monday at their offices, have been taken. The state media and a government spokesman made the absurd claim that they been taken into care by social workers, for rehabilitation. The MDC poured scorn over the claims describing them as ‘nonsense’. Video footage of the arrests clearly showed police taking away mainly women, children and babies who had fled the state sponsored violence, and were seeking sanctuary at the MDC offices.