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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted full remission of sentence for convicted female inmates, terminally-ill and prisoners living with disabilities, save for those convicted of specified offences such as murder, terrorism and rape.
Tendai Chabvuta: “The question that concerns most Zimbabweans about this matter of the release of convicted rapists under the amnesty provision is moral, legalistic, and political. What message is the Government sending when it releases such people into communities without conducting public consultations on such a critical public policy issue? Is it arrogance or ignorance on their part?”
Zimbabwe’s main opposition coalition, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has alleged that some of the more than 4,000 prisoners released on presidential amnesty last week include child rapists.
An unrepentant thief who was recently released from prison through the Presidential Amnesty is back in jail just a few days after being pardoned after he stole a bottle of face lotion from OK Supermarket in Victoria Falls.
Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said processes are underway to amend the recent clemency order and ensure more categories of prisoners benefit from the Presidential amnesty as an urgent measure to decongest prisons.
Government is in a dilemma as it tries to find a quick solution to decongest local prisons that are now overcrowded, thereby creating all sorts of challenges.
A man from Bulawayo who was released from prison under Presidential Amnesty last year has been sentenced to 75 months in prison for breaking into Khami Prison Complex thrice where he assaulted a prison guard and robbed four people.
A 38 year old man from Bulawayo who was released from prison under the Presidential amnesty last year allegedly broke into the Khami Prison Complex thrice, assaulted a prison guard and robbed four people.
Police in Bulawayo have arrested two ex-convicts who were released from prison under Presidential amnesty recently in connection with one of four grisly murders committed in the city last week.
A total of 24 inmates, including five women, who were released on Presidential Amnesty are back in prison hardly two weeks after gaining freedom.