Morning Star.png Swaziland: Democrats Hail Two Prisoners' Release The Morning Star, London, 3 July 2015 Pro-Democracy campaigners have welcomed the release of two prominent political prisoners by Swaziland's royalist regime this week. Human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko and Nation newspaper editor Bheki Makhubu were released on Tuesday after almost a year in prison. The two had been locked up since July 2014 as part of a crackdown on freedom of expression and the press by the government of King Mswati III. They were convicted of contempt of court for publishing articles criticising threats to judicial independence. The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) hailed their release as "an important outcome of intense campaigning by organisations worldwide, governments and trade unions." While the government claimed that courts were there to "prosecute, not persecute," the CPS pointed to the sacking of senior judges Michael Ramodibedi, whom the prisoners criticised, and Mpendulo Simelane, who sentenced them. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-8b1e-Swaziland-Democrats-hail-two-priso ners-release#.VZYQQ_mqqko -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
