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Gay pastor; ritual sex, deaths & BM make news
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... in court on September 10. The week also saw headlines about lawyers challenging the country's sedition laws in the wake of the arrest of a church minister who allegedly insulted Pres Bingu ...
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Govt. critic decries 2 police searches in 24 hrs
(Malawi National/Society)
... was beginning to enjoy his freedom barely a week after a court said he had no sedition case to answer. But it wasn’t seditious material police in the northern city of Mzuzu on Tuesday were looking for ...
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Muckracking on Sunday w/Raphael Tenthani
(SCOPE/Raphael Tenthani)
... Uganda - which has a strange brand of democracy - was the harbinger of good tidings last week. The Supreme Court in Kampala has declared sedition laws in the East African country unconstitutional for they ...
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DPP chose no one—Spinmeister Ntaba
(Malawi National/Politics)
... in 2014. Critics, including Livingstonia Synod’s Rev. Levi Nyondo who has since been charged with sedition, have accused the governing Democratic Progressive Party of taking the side of the president’s ...
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No sedition case for Harry the critic; he’s suing
(Malawi National/Politics)
MZUZU--Government critic Harry Mkandawire is a free man. The High Court in Mzuzu says Mkandawire, who was charged with sedition, has no case to answer because the director of public prosecutions has ...
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DPP for Peter Mutharika not Joyce Banda—Vuwa
(Malawi National/Politics)
... for questioning the treatment of the vice president. At the funeral of Prof. Moses Chirambo last Friday, Rev. Nyondo—who has since been charged with sedition--lamented the firing from cabinet ...
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Parties must declare sources of income
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... the president’s brother to succeed him in 2014 and a reverend who dared to speak against the government's unpopular policies has been arrested for “sedition". How history will remember this, ...
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Malawi cleric charged with sedition out on bail
(Malawi National/Politics)
... for sedition is five years in prison. Earlier, Assistant Commissioner Happy Mkandawire, the principal prosecutor of the Malawi Police Service, asked Kishindo not to release the cleric on bail ...
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Reverend strikes DPP: People not toilet paper!
(Malawi National/Politics)
... arrested and charged an outspoken cleric with sedition. Anglican priest, Rev. Macdonald Sembereka told his congregation in the sermon “The Suffering Church” that persecution of the church is not ...
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No bail, Nyondo would ‘tamper with evidence’
(Malawi National/Politics)
BLANTYRE—A Malawi court has denied bail to Rev, Levi Nyondo charged with sedition, fearing he would “tamper with evidence”, a court official told Maravipost.com Saturday. The cleric, ...
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MW charges blunt cleric Rev. Nyondo with sedition
(Malawi National/Society)
... has been charged with sedition, which carries a sentence of up to five years in prison. Mzuzu Police Station was almost turned into a church as the Women’s Guild clad in their habits sang and ...
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Myth of Kamuzu's contact and dialogue
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... Kamuzu’s weren’t given a chance to explain what they meant by their spoken or written word. Some avoided capture and fled the country but others were arrested and charged with treason or sedition. The ...
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Re-thinking prerogatives
(SCOPE/General)
... man, the supposed boss. His name and title suddenly become protected, so protected that should you say certain things you will be entangled in sedition or even treason laws. In the run up to the vote ...
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Witnesses turn on govt. in sedition case
(Malawi National/District)
MZUZU--In the ongoing sedition case fired DPP director of political affairs Harry Mkandawire is answering at Mzuzu Magistrates Court in Northern Malawi, the State paraded two hostile witnesses who surprised ...
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State delays to set Mkandawire free
(Malawi National/District)
... sedition charges when a police prosecutor wanted to turn a reporter covering the proceedings into a state witness. The prosecutor threatened Nation Publications reporter Edwin Nyirongo with a warrant ...
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Govt. wants Makande, Kalua back in court
(Malawi National/Society)
... and sentenced them to 20 months jail for sedition. A lawyer for the two--Bob Chimkango--was qouted by the Nation newspaper as saying he had received a notice of appeal from the director of public prosecutions ...
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3 critical of Bingu loan remarks jailed
(Malawi National/Politics)
... speech. The High Court last month ruled against a sedition conviction against two politicians, saying their being found guilty by a lower court "overlooked the right to freedom expression that citizens ...
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'Ka Ngwazi' not referring to Bingu
(Malawi National/Politics)
BLANTYRE--Malawi's High Court on Friday threw out a sedition conviction by a lower court that sent two opposition leaders--Hophmally Makande and Kamlepo Kaluwa--to jail last year. "The lower ...
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Malawi's habits that die hard
(Malawi National/Politics)
... expression. In fact, he outlawed political speech. What? Yes, he did. Sedition was what you were charged with if they found you being critical of government. Yours truly's belief--as shared by free speech ...
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Could Malawi suffer a relapse?
(Malawi National/Society)
... who has been charged with sedition. The man is said to have written that the quota system used to admit students to public colleges "reflects lack of distributive justice and is evil." The High Court ruled ...