Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum Special Report
Enforcing the Rule of Law in Zimbabwe
parliamentary affairs expressed concern that it received ‘highly conflicting evidence from the
Attorney-General’s office and the Commissioner of Police on all aspects’ of this problem of
missing dockets, starting with a major discrepancy in numbers (21 vs 186).1 The committee
recommended tightening accountability and administrative procedures.
As the fuel crisis precluded remand prisoners being brought to court, prosecutor Wilbert
Mandinde complained of having to remand prisoners in absentia, without those remanded being
able to complain.
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