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The State yesterday said investigations had been completed into the matter in which seven activists arrested upon return from the Maldives where they allegedly attended a workshop on subverting a constitutionally elected Government.
This paves the way for the resumption of their trial.
George Makoni, Tatenda Mombeyarara, Gamuchirai Mukura, Nyasha Mpahlo, Farirai Gumbonzvanda, Sithabile Dewa and Rita Nyamupinga yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Mrs Rumbidzai Mugwagwa.
Prosecutor Mr Sebastian Mutizirwa said the docket for the matter was with the Prosecutor General, Mr Kumbirai Hodzi, for indictment and assessment.
Mr Mutizirwa successfully sought a postponement of the matter to August 12 for trial.
On the last remand date, the State led by Mr Charles Muchemwa, told the court that it was making strides in furnishing the accused with a trial date as the docket had been forwarded earlier in the morning to the Prosecutor-General to fix a trial date.
“We have made an undertaking to provide a trial date, but information we have is that the docket is now with the Prosecutor-General for possible trial date consideration,” he said.
“It is worth noting that this matter is complex because it involves terrestrial information and some of that information has since been retrieved from the gadgets taken from the accused,” he said.
Allegations against the seven, who are members of civic society organisations, are that on May 13 last year, they travelled to Maldives where they took part in a training workshop organised by a Serbian NGO called Centre for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies, with intention of subvert a constitutionally-elected Government.
They were arrested upon return at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.
Their notes, laptops and cell phones which contained the allegedly subversive materials were recovered and were sent to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) for extraction of evidence.
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