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Amnesty International demands for HH’s release

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Amnesty International has demanded that UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema be released immediately.

The organisation is also demanding that Mr Hichilema’s ‘trumped-up treason charges be dropped.

It said the Zambian authorities must drop trumped-up treason charges against Mr. Hichilema and his five employees and release them unconditionally.

Amnesty International said this in a statement today ahead of his bail hearing.

“Hakainde Hichilema and the other arrested members of the United Party for National Development (UPND) are victims of longstanding persecution by the Zambian authorities stemming from their political activities and last year’s disputed election,” said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southern Africa.

“The charges against Hichilema and his employees are designed to harass and intimidate him and deter him from doing his political work.”

Below is the full statement from Amnesty International

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

PRESS RELEASE

Zambia: Drop trumped-up treason charges against opposition leader and release him immediately Zambian authorities must drop trumped-up treason charges against main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema and his five employees and release them unconditionally, Amnesty International said today ahead of his bail hearing.

The six were arrested on 11 April after they allegedly failed to give way to a Presidential convoy. They claim they were beaten, teargassed and pepper sprayed on their genitals by the police.

“Hakainde Hichilema and the other arrested members of the United Party for National Development (UPND) are victims of longstanding persecution by the Zambian authorities stemming from their political activities and last year’s disputed election,” said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southern Africa.

“The charges against Hichilema and his employees are designed to harass and intimidate him and deter him from doing his political work.”
Hakainde Hichilema is facing charges of treason, “disobeying lawful orders” and using insulting language towards the police after a confrontation with a convoy carrying President Edgar Lungu.

Police allege that Hichilema’s vehicles did not give way to the presidential motorcade while they were travelling on the same road on 8 April.

However, Hichilema’s lawyer told Amnesty International that their vehicles had been given permission to go ahead. Both men were on their way to attend a religious ceremony in Mongu district.

After their arrest, three of Hichilema’s employees were allegedly tortured by policemen wearing hoods.
“These charges are a massive conflation of what is essentially a traffic control issue; it should not be labelled treason, said Deprose Muchena.

“The Zambian authorities must promptly and thoroughly investigate these reports of torture and other ill-treatment of those detained and bring suspected perpetrators to justice in a fair trial.”

Background

Hakainde Hichilema is the president of the main opposition political party, the United Party for National Development (UPND) in Zambia.

On 11 August 2016 he stood against President Edgar Lungu in the presidential elections, where he was narrowly defeated.

Following the defeat, the UPND challenged the electoral results but their petition was thrown out by the Constitutional Court before being heard.

On 6 October 2016, Hichilema was arrested alongside UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba in Luanshya while on their way to visit their supporters in prison. Police have backdated his treason charges to October 2016, alleging that he has failed to recognise Lungu’s presidency.

For more information or to request an interview, please contact:
Robert Shivambu, Media Manager – Amnesty International – Southern Africa
Public Document
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Amnesty International Southern Africa Regional office, 3 Glenhove Road, Melrose Estate, Johannesburg 2196
twitter: @amnestypress or @AmnestySAfrica or @AmnestySARO

95 COMMENTS

    • We don’t follow amnesty international laws in dealing with law breakers in Zambia. These 1diots should differentiate between a friend and a criminal/suspect. If you are demanding for the release of a friend you ‘ve no rights to instruct the Zambian courts to release him and on the other hand if you are demanding for the release of a suspect/criminal you need to understand the procedure. Thats been childish demanding for the release of a dangerous suspect. Zambia has for the past weeks enjoyed peace since that cretin was put behind bars. No rich person is above the law.

    • There must be misprision of treason if somebody in PF knew that HH had been planning a coup d’etat since October 2016. Also, isn’t it strange that HH only planned the coup with his chef, gardener, driver, and bodyguards?

    • You have just said it for me.
      AI are too loud mouthed. Lawlessness is not acceptable anywhere. Human rights are about observing the good laws of any nation.

    • I listened to an Amnesty International’s Malawi based official speaking of South Africa’s SAFM giving an account of what led to HH arrest, and was shocked about her level of ignorance about Zambian politics! and unfortunately, it’s so sad that these are the people that are left to disseminate lies about our country, yet the international community sees them as a credible authority in such matters. Can High Commissioner Mwamba educate SAFM’s audience on what actually happened, and in particular the history of Zambia’s politics and the Barotseland issue, coz it is part of why HH and his supporters in Mongu behaved the way they did. In fact, the same Amnesty International official says the whole ordeal took place in MONGU PROVINCE!!!!

    • GO AND TRY COMMITTING SUCH A “TRAFFIC OFFENCE BY BLOCKING US PRESIDENT’S PASSAGE AND SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU !!!!!

    • Is there no other way for these NGOs to get money than speaking about matters even when they have no facts … or is it a case of conveniently ignoring the truth for their survival?

    • Ignore these f000ls (AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL) like Israel and the U.S. does. They only seem to come out of the woodwork when it concerns “poor” Countries. What have these !d!ots done about issues such as the Guantanamo Bay Cuba where the U.S.A is holding people incommunicado without any charges all in the name of security fifteen years and counting after they were imprisoned there. Do you hear even a ‘beep’ from these f00ls called AI people anymore about this?

      Zambia has RULES and LAWS which every citizen, doesn’t matter who, has to obey in order to enjoy one’s freedom. Whether the charge of TREASON is valid or not, it is not for AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL to say. Our courts will decide that issue. And why rely on “Hichilema’s lawyer” to tell IA what happened in Mongu when video…

    • continue:

      … evidence is allover the Internet for this IA rep to watch for himself? So did Amnesty Int’l expect Ichilema’s Layer to implicate his client and not defend him?

    • Its a reckless call made with the usual culture of arrogance, subversiveness on our local institutions to promote miscarriage of justice and institutional irrelevance. The matter is before the courts and who issues the release when the due process of natural justice has not even been done? Amnest should go serve its face in Syria, Libya, the South Sudan and such places instead of belaboing to undermine institutions in a country with functioning systems.

    • @ Senior Citizem, I suppose you intentionally chose your name, otherwise it would be silly to comment on these things as a CITIZEN of Zambia from the US!

      Anyway, “functioning systems”? Well, I also suppose that choosing the President of a Nation by waving machetes and rigging elections could be described as “functioning systems”, but I doubt that anyone would call it DEMOCRACY or the RULE OF LAW!!!

    • Any one who thinks government actions are justified needs their heads examined.
      And for once we need to stop calling ourselves a Christian country.

    • Amnesty International is a respected organisation world wide and has been in existence long before Lungu even joined politics. If the PF can not respect AI which has been a refuge and support for so many individuals who have faced persecution in the World, then I weep for my country.
      But a word of adivice for President Lungu. Please remember that all these psycophants who are urging you to continue along the path of persecution will defect, abandon you and denounce you once you leave office and can not give them jobs. But Amnesty International will be there for you if the next job-giver decides to harass you. These words come from a person who wishes you well even though you are not likely to believe me. You are creating sympathy for Hakainde all over the world.

    • @Oval head,

      You are the same *****s who will be wailing, calling upon amnesty international to come and save you when the Zambian people decide to rise against you. The late Sata liked the saying that “chagwila mzako lelo milo chilipaliwe.
      Your time is coming when things will be against you. Unfortunately not even amnesty international will help you.

      Release HH now.

    • BA AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, THERE ARE SO MANY CRIMINALS IN COURTS IN ZAMBIA.WHY HAVE YOU GOT INTERESTED IN ONE SERIOUS CRIMINAL LEAVING OTHERS. IF YOU CAN SHUT UP THE MAJORITY OF ZAMBIANS WILL BE VERY HAPPY BECAUSE IN ZAMBIA WE HAVE LAWS AND LAW COURTS TO DEAL WITH CRIMINALS.

    • THEREFORE, LET THE COURTS OF ZAMBIA DEAL WITH THE ALLEGATIONS SLAPPED ON HH. AND PLEASE, DON’T GIVE OUR GOVERNMENT INSTRUCTION TO RELEASE AN ALLEGED CRIMINAL.

  1. Again I repeat myself, when will African institutions grow? How will African institutions gain trust from the public if every time there are faced with a high profile case for them to prove themselves , some NGOs and diplomats make noise and the case disappears and judges are left with no precedent to work on?

    This case is in court, if the charges are trumped up , the court will say so and throw out the case the precedent would have been set and it will be used by an average Joe in future who will be charged with the same case and no NGOs and NGOs to make noise for him.

    I think this move by Amnesty is retrogressive and backward and honestly shameful.

    What we need to fight for here is speedy trial. Justice is what we seek and that can only be dispensed in court and if the…

    • What we need to fight for here is speedy trial. Justice is what we seek and that can only be dispensed in court and if the court get it right, it would restore trust in the system and help us build our institutions.

      This is a EXAM that our Courts must Take.
      This is the EXAM our Courts MUST Pass

      We need our Courts to Take this Exam
      We need our Courts to Pass this Exam.

      We can’t have a rigged system for the rich and popular politicians , while the poor, without the voice of NGOs and Diplomats, are made to go through our courts without the glare of the public eyes. This is wrong and it must stop!!!

      This case puts the Courts in the spot like of public trust and opinion and lets see how they will perform

      Let the case go one, let Justice prevail

    • @chief booklicker you are spot on. Why should our judges be subjected to undue influence? Let justice prevail without any interference. Amnesty international are not judges to decide on the case which are before the courts. If they are used to do that in south Africa they need to understand that this is zambia.

    • Bootlicker, the answer to your question simple. In Zambia, no Civil Society can do what Amnesty has done. If they did, they will be arrested. Public media has been gagged to the point that they only regurgitate what PF tells them too. Simply put, we have no selfless leadership and as a consequence our institutions of governance are very weak. Our only hope are the Catholic Bishops

    • Ii it fair to have an innocent person incarcerated for two weeks on charges that are unfounded? Why did they take the case to the magistrates court when theyknew from the onset that treason cases are heard by the high court

    • @MMD Bootlicker, may I dare say that I have always had the greatest regard for you and your balanced views. I am sorry that in this particular case, you just have got all wrong.
      The Police Service have already failed this exam. There was absolutely no reason for them to break down some ones gate and door and create a war situation over a traffic offence. They should have issued a call out for him to report to the police. There would have been need to go to his home only after failure to report.
      There is no basis to think the Courts will suddenly grow back bones and acquit HH. They will convict Hakainde and that will leave President Lungu with the pride of granting him clemency when there should never have been this treason trial in the first place..

    • PF bootlicker,

      Your wishes would only work in a civilised country not Zambia where the judge is Lungu giving instructions to all the judges on how to proceed with the case.

      Lungu is quickly creating another Zimbabwe.

  2. So Mr. Deprose Muchena – Amnesty International – Southern Africa, where were you when people were being killed in Namwala and other parts of Zambia?

  3. Whoever calling and demanding the realise of HH without going through due processes of the court is a stupid, senseless and *****. In zambia there is law and no one including the president is above the law of the country.

    The matter is before the court and as such, it is important to respect that fact.

    Those “demanding” the realise of HH, and not even appearing have no respect for the Zambian people and it’s laws. Zambia is not a banana republic and it shall never be.

    The court would realise him if he is innocent. If he is guilty he should go to jail, in case of treason even killed. Law is law.

    Thanks

  4. We should not waste each others time. This case must not have gone to court in the first place. Where on earth does road rage become treason? Lets be serious for once.

    • Do road rage with hh and gbm because it’s not gonna be treason but never with the republican president mwana. The presidency is is a different story. Under normal circumstances hh was going to be shot dead in spot.

    • Why was HH and his men NOT arrested in Mongu? He should have been arrested on the spot if this was treason. Especially if the so-called president was in danger, why did they police fail to arrest him on the spot?

    • @HH OVAL HEAD. You think like a wild animal. You need vaccination. That is the problem with these uneducated carders. Lungu is the one that followed HH on that road leaving his chopper. He was jealous of the massive support HH continues to recieve. Secondly, Lungu won in 2015 and HH recognized him. Why? It was because the elections were properly done and took into account all stakeholder. 2016 election were not done properly and massively rigged. Things did not add up or make sensem and then the Ugandan that was caught in the server room. All these are justifiable reasons to petition and not recognize the winner especially that the case is still alive in court.

    • @ true zambian why going with a chopper when those plains with alot of sand and dust disturbin everyone better with the vehicles which was more convinient hh went to mongu 3 days before the ceremony addressing people that he had won the elections and he was the only one they were suppose to recongnise as president and that alone was treason because he had declared himself president when the actual president was going there as well,he went on community radio station telling the citizen of mongu that they are removing ecl from state house on 29-04.2017 and he is on record saying that he just put himself in this nonscence ci-ka-la cakwe

    • @ true Zambian to the contrary Hh oval head still cried foul when ECL won in 2015…. He said his votes had been stolen.
      Why do you people choose to believe your lies? It is on record, your demi god even before the first vote was cast stated that if he loses he was not going to accept the results and that is exactly what he is doing.
      The court the should know that whatever judgement they will make concerning this matter, they are setting precedence.
      Laws are in acted for the citizens to follow not break and I don’t know of any law for the biggest opposition in our beloved Zambia.

      I

  5. This is a real problem in Africa. All of those calling for HH release are only considering only one side of the coin. This is not strange because most Africans are only good at treating the ‘symptoms, and extremely poor at implementation of preventive measures. Just because the president did not die due to HH reckless driving does not justify the wrong – the least HH sympathizers can do is to spell out the wrongs on both sides and council to set precedence for would be offenders. HH has been insulting the presidency, promising the nation amagedon and that is fine to them until war erupts. What manner of thinking is this. EL must protect the office by doing everything in his powers even if it means sending HH to jail. We must be forward thinking…

    • In addition, HH is not a paragon of democratic practice given the fact that his party does not practice internal democracy. HH did not condemn the violence meted out on innocent Zambian citizens in Namwala because he wanted revenge attacks to be meted out on his supporters in other parts of the country so that the international community would insist on a government of national unity as happened in Kenya in 2007.

  6. PRESS RELEASE
    this press release doesn’t make sense!!!

    AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

    PRESS RELEASE

    Zambia: Drop trumped-up treason charges against opposition leader and release him immediately Zambian authorities must drop trumped-up treason charges against main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema and his five employees and release them unconditionally, Amnesty International said today ahead of his bail hearing.

    • Nigga, Am. Inter. has not even read our Penal Code to say trumped up charges consult with authorities before lashing at the government.

  7. A president who portrays a character of humbleness and ‘Christian like’ when he’s infact a tin pot dictator. Am beginning to hate this country. Growing up, I always believed we are a true democratic society. And of-course, we were from 1991 until somewhere after Levy.
    Who else do those who think they wield power want to listen to? The bishops have spoken, high profile individuals such as Raila Odinga, Mmusi Maimane, Tendai Biti and the list is endless.
    That the opinion of Kampyongo, Kamba, Mumbi phjiri and their lot are the supreme decisions that this country and its law enforcement wings have to live by is beyond my imagination. Any professional and independent opinion is being out rightly shoved down the news bins, i.e Linda Kasonde and LAZ. Just what happened to the beautiful…

    • No not Tends Bit, Rails Odinga, Muasi may be high profile on their own rights but not in Zambia’s rights. Yes may be the Catholic bishops, but even them they have not played their game well. They have taken sides. What have they said when one of their children has told the brother to be a hyena? Not be his brother? The have been quite.

  8. Lungu has given Zambia a bad name. Look at how his thug Zulu behaved at the soccer stadium in front of an international organization. He has damaged the Judiciary in order to manipulate them to cling to power. There is law in Zambia or respect for human rights. Any proper investor will not invest such a country. All he had to do is defend his legitmacy in court with evidence not running away or chancing technicalitie like the 14 days. The truth always haunts those who hide it. You are never at peace and problems will always follow you. No matter what lungu does the issue will never go away until he faces it in a lawfully manner. Using thugs and criminals in police uniform will not help.

  9. IF I WERE LUNGU I WERE GOING TO RESIGN ON PUBLIC INTEREST. NO ONE SEES THE PRESIDENT AS A LEADER WHO CAN ARTICULATE ISSUES OF THE NATION IN A PROFESSIONAL AND HARMON MANNER. HE IS A FAILURE AND HAS NO LEADERSHIP DIRECTION FOR THE COUNTRY. IF YOU SEE ONE WHO EMBRAESES BAD EGGS LIKE MUMBI PHIRI, FRANK BWALYA, AMOS CHANDA, KAMPYONGO, LUSAMBO WHO ARE FULL OF EVIL WILLS. HOW CAN HE LEAD A NATION LIKE THIS?

    VERY DISAPPOINTED.

  10. IF I WERE LUNGU I WERE GOING TO RESIGN ON PUBLIC INTEREST. NO ONE SEES THE PRESIDENT AS A LEADER WHO CAN ARTICULATE ISSUES OF THE NATION IN A PROFESSIONAL AND HARMON MANNER. HE IS A FAILURE AND HAS NO LEADERSHIP DIRECTION FOR THE COUNTRY. IF YOU SEE ONE WHO EMBRACES BAD EGGS LIKE MUMBI PHIRI, FRANK BWALYA, AMOS CHANDA, KAMPYONGO, LUSAMBO WHO ARE FULL OF EVIL WILLS. HOW CAN HE LEAD A NATION LIKE THIS?

    VERY DISAPPOINTED. LUNGU’S DOWN FALL SHALL BE A CELEBRATION OF MANY ZAMBIANS

    • Celebration of which MAJORITY that voted for ECL?? Aren’t you contradicting yourself? Resignation on public interest?? Why?? The majority vote for you, they have wild street parties when you are announced winner, they don’t riot when the opposition leader is arrested-why would you resign???? ooooohh…so that he can handover to hh…sorry to interrupt your wet dream but that doesn’t happen in reality…kwekwekwekwekwekwe!!!!!!!!!!

  11. You Amnesty donkeys, of course hh WILL be released, but only if our courts of law find no case against him. Otherwise he is in for a long long time. But you can rest assured that Zambia respects human rights and human life, so if he is found guilty of treason and sentenced according to the laws of Zambia, he is not likely to be given the noose treatment and may even be pardoned by our President. Our President is not the bloody thirsty individual that you try to paint him to be. He has told you clearly to let the law take its course. So you donkeys please respect our President and our sovereign laws…..donkeys, don’t you have laws where you live? Do you live in the republic of donkeys where you can do anything you want?

    • True, Yeta. conviction, presidential pardon, then no more elections as convicts can’t stand in elections. Straight forward process, don’t you think??

  12. Amnesty International can not give any country a rough ride! This statement is ridiculous. The case has not even been heard. Amnesty International cannot interfere nor intimidate the Zambian Judiciary in doing its job.

  13. Simple traffic offence. With a lot of childish exaggerations. With some simple minds even thinking people were going to be shot, for what. Its only in Africa where people think that the Presidency is so special and sacred. This backwardness is so appalling. Go to Europe, Presidents even go to work on bicycles. They even lift an umbrella on their own when it is raining, here it must be a kapaso doing it.

    • @Bwalya WHY ARE YOU CALLING IT SIMPLE TRAFFIC OFFENCE?
      1. DID’NT HH HEAR THE SIREN ANNOUNCING THE PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCADE?
      2. DID’NT HH SEE THE PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCADE?
      3. DID HH DELIBERATELY CHOOSE TO REMAIN IN THE ROAD WHEN THE HEAD OF STATE WAS PASSING?
      4.DID HH DELIBERATELY CHOOSE TO DISOBEY TRAFFIC RULES CONCERNING PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCADE?
      5.DID HH DELIBERATELY CHOOSE TO COMMIT A TRAFFIC OFFENCE?
      6. DOES HH KNOW THAT TRAFFIC OFFENCES CAN LEAD TO RTAs AND DEATH ON THE ROADS ESPECIALLY IN ZAMBIA?
      7. DID HH KNOW THAT BY DELIBERATELY COMMITTING THE TRAFFIC OFFENCE HE WAS PUTTING THE LIFE OF THE HEAD OF STATE IN MORTAL DANGER?
      8. DID HH PUT IN PLACE ANY MEASURES TO ENSURE THAT THE RTA THAT HE WAS GOING TO CAUSE WAS NOT GOING TO RESULT IN THE DEATH OF THE HEAD OF STATE?
      9. IF SO,…

    • CONTINUED……9. IF SO, WHAT MEASURES DID HE PUT IN PLACE TO ENSURE THAT THE RTA THAT HE WAS GOING TO CAUSE WAS NOT GOING TO END IN DEATH OF THE HEAD OF STATE?
      AND YOU WANT TO CALL IT “A SIMPLE TRAFFIC OFFENCE”. HERE IN ZAMBIA WE HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO SEEING GRUESOME PICTURES OF DEAD BODIES AS A CONSEQUENCE OF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ALMOST EVERY DAY. AND YOU WANT TO CALL SUCH AS “A SIMPLE TRAFFIC OFFENCE”?

    • Bwalya let the courts decide, then we can prove the the police and the judges. Hh has already said that judges are criminals and the police too.

  14. For Amnesty International to have issued that statement ,they must have studied thoroughly the circumstances under which HH was arrested following the kuomboka ceremony Presidential motorcade/traffic incident in Mongu. Did HH try to overthrow the government? Did he try to kill the sitting Republican President? Was he the one driving? The answer to both these questions is a categorical NO and all of us know this.The purpose of keeping him in custody is just to torture him, like what they are doing to Mwaliteta and others.

  15. We deserve respect for our sovereignty and if HH is guilty or not it’s upto the courts to determine. I see you supporting and covering all the wrong doing of hh.first condem the wrong doing of this hh and then plead with Courts. The president clearly stated that is got only power to pardon those who r convicted and not pipo who r not convicted as it is with hh.
    Boma ni boma mudala

    • Only if our Courts dispense Justice properly! When the Judges take weekends of and use delaying tactics to make sure the case is not HEARD, can any sensible, rational and logical person expect real JUSTICE from those Courts?

      THAT IS WHY A.I. is speaking out. THEY KNOW the Con Court judges are Lungus stooges bribed to misdirect the case.

  16. Does amnesty international “club” know that there are so many who are in prison without trial for many years? To be seen to be fair lets demand to apply FIFO (first in first out). This man has just secured himself a plot in chimbwakaila and you want him out, its not fair to those that went in earlier

  17. Don’t we have Amnesty Zambia rather then listening to outsiders who know nothing about Zambia. In any case shut all prisons in Zambia and let everyone be free, no more law breakers should be imprisoned- that’s amnesty.

  18. Don’t we have Amnesty Zambia rather then listening to outsiders who know nothing about Zambia? In any case shut all prisons in Zambia and let everyone be free, no more law breakers should be imprisoned- that’s amnesty.

  19. U Bembas are tribal! Let see if u can fight God & who be defeated,u made Zambia to be divided with yo god lungu who want the patient to be mediccin after u have destroyed the economy.

    • Steven kampyongo for once leave Bemba’s alone….. how do they become tribal when you have got their own son Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba serving us acting president for UPND?

  20. Professor Nkandu Luo and Margarete Mwanakatwe had their sits nullified by the same courts. Did ECL respect the decision of the courts? Kaizer Zulu has had police dockets opened against him. Did ECL allow police do it’s job independently? So, where is the respect for the separation of powers among the three organs of government as stipulated by the republican constitution? ECL is simply a disaster to this nation, he wants all the institutions of governance to surrender to him. Look at the mess going on at the electrol commission of zambia where there is massive resignations from commissioners, directors to spokespersons over the same disputed 2016 general elections. And you are made to believe that ECL means well for this country unless you can not see the rot…………….

  21. Buck Teeth Lungu didn’t you hear that the main culprits (two of them) were apprehended recently and that the Police will give K100, 000= to whoever will give them information about the whereabouts of Ex-police man who is the master minder of what has been happening.

  22. True Zambian, can you please explain to us (the entire country) in full detail how the elections were rigid? People are fed-up listening to you guys that elections were rigged not being told how.

  23. @22 – How do you know that they are resigning on their own it might be they have got no choice it is either the resign or be fired due to their misdeeds?

  24. In other countries Amnesty International could have been banned and cited for contempt.Our laws should not be segregated whether poor or rich they should be applied equally.

  25. #FreeHH #ReleaseHH #
    Prayer for My President .
    God of Abraham, God of Isaac i bow before you humbly with a heavy heart. I know you are the same yesterday , today and forever. Grant my president strength and soften his heart to be able to forgive his prosecutors. My God you have never failed i cry to you to hear my prayer protect him from the evil one. No weapon fashioned against him should be successful. May your might hand deal with all his prosecutors for vengeance is yours ooh lord. Protect him and strengthen him. Vindicate him because i know he is innocent .Thank you Father for i know you have heard my prayer. Be with our mother Madam Mutinta Hichilema as she goes through this trying moments with her children. Comfort and be on their side. This i ask through your son Jesus Christ…

  26. Who is Tha citizen of another country commanding a legitimately elected government to release a friend without respect. Commanding a government of another country as if it is your own child in your native country. Amnesty learn to respect sovereign states.

  27. amnesty international is well respected all over the world and is a credible organization. As Zambians , we must listen to them .let them also let us know what progress they have made in countries like Israel, USA over racism and the closing of Guantanamo bay , China ,Russia against Jehovah’s witnesses and the Islamic countries . Not a good idea to criticize a credible NGO.

  28. BO MUCHENA, BO MUCHENA, YOU SIMPLY SOUND LIKE A UPND CADRE! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT THE CHARGES AGAINST HH WERE TRUMPED UP? OR ARE YOU SO BLIND THAT YOU CAN’T SEE HH BLOCKING THE PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCADE. THE CHAIR YOU ARE SITTING ON IS TOO DIGNIFIED FOR YOU TO EXHIBIT THAT KIND OF BIASED JUDGEMENT AGAINST GOVERNMENT. PLEASE KINDLY LEAVE THE SEAT TO A NON-PARTISAN OFFICIAL OR WE DEMAND FOR YOUR REMOVAL. YOU’ RE NOT FIT.

  29. It love that makes us happy .. it is love that smooth the way. it make us kind to others everyday … GOD is Love. We are HIS little children
    Leaning on the everlasting ARM…..

    Watch what OUR GOD, THE LORD ALMIGHTY SHALL DO .
    Pray without ceasing

  30. TO HELL! With this so called Amnesty International. For they are the mouth-piece of their funders and chief abusers of global Human Rights “Washington Consensus Thinking Circle, the British, Americans…”
    Africa/Zambia needs to rid itself of these colonial extension arms of “justice” bent of controlling a person/country of colour.
    The British are locking up women and children seeking asylum in their country, America is even worse… So is that not Human right abuse, Amnesty International???

    Amnesty International My Assassss!

  31. BO MUCHENA, WHAT DO YOU THINK COULD HAVE HAPPENNED TO HH IF HE HAD BLOCKED KK’s MOTORCADE IN THE UNIP ERA? YOU KNOW THW ANSWER. THIS GUY SHOULD ACTUALLY SWALLOW THE PRIDE, THANK THE PRESIDENT AND APPOLOGISE TO THE NATION.

  32. Too many ignorant- illiterates trying to be relevant here.
    Mostly Easterners trying to defend the evil wrongs by government.
    The charges and use of force are disproportionate and it’s a shame.
    Fact that you can type some English here doesn’t mean your opinion is the law.

  33. Who employed such a clueless ***** to be a representative of such a credible organization? Why can’t you get the government’s side of the story you fool than listening to one party which is grieving and buy their story only. You need to be fired for those comments.

  34. Amnesty International and some Western diplomats accredited to African States – including appendages of Anglo-American – are a bunch of OSTRICHES who bury their heads in the sands when the politicians they sponsor commit human atrocities.

    We know the brutes that primed genocide in Rwanda, those that created RENAMO & UNITA to create havoc in Mozambique and Angola respectively. For information of Amnesty International this Organisation must know that President Lungu is backed up by well informed intellectuals who shall offer him professional advice to lift Zambia to higher heights in peace. In the long run African economies will shun the western markets.

  35. Amnesty international for HH not Zambians. This is the folly of these so called NGOs who only reflect the wishes of their masters that feed them. People lost houses and where displaced in large numbers in the stronghold of their messiah (HH) they raised no word of condemnation but now their messiah wants to kill the peoples’ president the law visits him they open their beaks, what a shame.

  36. Meanwhile, Amnesty has also told President Kabila, Kagame and Museveni to step down and release all those who are in hospital – sorry I mean in jail – all political prisoners! Wow! Maybe, I just made this news up! they can’t!

  37. Hazaluza Hagain received a lot of money from outsiders who had a mistaken idea that he was relevant to Zambian presidency! He is not! Zambia is not for sell like the other companies he sold and profited from! The immature Under 5 “Card” now wants to be relevant by destroying Zambia and trying to win sympathy from those who gave him money! He cannot win except in Namwala!

  38. Lungu’s treatment of Zambians in general and HH in particular explains why African presidents have a frighteningly very low mortality rate. With all this st.upidity Lungu is stirring up, do you wonder why these goons often get shot like Laurel Kabila, Gadhafy etc?

    • be quiet. gadhafy took great care of the Libyans. after their so called liberation they are in a lot of hell. ever wondered why peace has never truly returned to libya. the americans tricked them and now they are suffering greatly

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