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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“I am delighted to no longer be under police guard, although they were very
nice to me. So many have been so good to me,” he said.
“I expect to be in court tomorrow and I so want to come back to Bulawayo
again. I want to leave Bulawayo under my own volition.”
Munyaradzi Ngarayapenga, his lawyer, said he had been released from hospital
into the custody of a friend.
“He has been released but immigration is going to prosecute him to stand
trial tomorrow. He doesn’t have his passport. He is now here on a temporary
permit,” he said.
“He is being charged with violating the conditions of his entry, in other
words he is accused of making a false declaration when he came into the
country.”
If found guilty, Mr Trelawny could be fined up to £3,200 or a prison sentence
of 10 years. If they want to depot him, they must secure a conviction.
The latest development has laid bare fierce political wranglings between the
government’s state security arm – which backs President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu
PF – and ministers from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for
Democratic Change, who run the Arts and Home Affairs ministries, responsible
for managing visitors’ permits.
David Coltart, the MDC Arts, Culture and Education Minister, condemned the
treatment of Mr Trelawny “in the strongest possible terms”.
“This is outrageous conduct by the Department of Immigration and is
seriously damaging to Zimbabwe’s international reputation,” he said.
“It undermines the efforts of many of us who are trying to persuade the
Europeans and North Americans to engage with us.”
Theresa Makone, the MDC Home Affairs Minister, said the immigration
authorities had “no right” to insist on Mr Trelawny’s continued
detention.
“As far as I am concerned, he has committed no offence. It’s not his
business to get a TEP but in any case, it’s not a matter of life and death
whether he had one or not because he was not working for profit, he was
working as a volunteer to assist under-privileged children.”
A Harare lawyer with expertise in immigration issues said Home Affairs would
have little sway over those driving Mr Trelawny’s prosecution.
“The immigration department has enormous powers,” he said. “They
can conduct their own investigations. There are people who have been in
remand prison in Harare for years on immigration offences. This case is
quite extraordinary given that the attorney-general declined to prosecute.”
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