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*Lawyers Rescue Couple Jailed Over Mnangagwa False Covid Death Report* *Follow Pindula on WhatsApp for daily new updates* https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va84dngJP21B2nWeyM3v?zw Statement by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) on the bailing of Beitbridge couple arrested for allegedly sharing on social media a message falsely claiming that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had succumbed to corona. > ZLHR RESCUES COUPLE JAILED OVER MNANGAGWA’S FALSE DEATH REPORT > A BEITBRIDGE couple has been released from prison after Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) members arrested and charged the duo with publishing or communicating falsehoods by sharing a message on a WhatsApp group stating that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had died after being administered a vaccine to treat him of coronavirus. > The couple, Vongai Nomatter Chiminya aged 20 years and Devine Panashe Maregere also aged 20 years, were on Friday 29 January 2021 ordered to pay RTGS$15 000 bail each by Beitbridge Magistrate Toendepi Zhou and ordered not to post any material on social media to do with government business. > Prosecutors told Magistrate Zhou that the couple on Tuesday 26 January 2021 unlawfully and intentionally forwarded an audio message to each other and later on, on a WhatsApp group alleging that President Mnangagwa had died on Monday 25 January 2021 as a result of a COVID-19 vaccination, which was administered to him at his ruling ZANU PF party headquarters. > Chiminya, prosecutors alleged, first received the audio message on her mobile phone number after it had been shared on a WhatsApp group titled “Ruwadzano Rwemadzimai” by a person only identified as Molly, who used a South African registered sim card. > Chiminya reportedly forwarded the message to her husband, who later on circulated the same message on a WhatsApp group titled “Agents and Runners, Beitbridge”. > Prosecutors said Chiminya, who is unemployed and Maregere, who is employed as a “runner” at Express Best Clearing Company, had no lawful right to act in the manner which they allegedly did. > After arresting the couple, ZRP members confiscated their mobile phone handsets, which will be used as exhibits during their trial. > The couple returns to court on 5 March 2021. > ENDS _If you found this article useful_ *Please support Pindula by forwarding to friends and groups*
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