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Mughogho, northern regional chair of the Malawi Forum for Unity and Development, was arrested on Sept. 17 for protesting President Bakili Muluzi’s decision to alter the constitution and seek a third term as leader of the southern African country...
...Sept. 19, after Mughogho spent his second night in jail, the state prosecutor dropped the original charge and added two new ones: conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace and possession of materials likely to cause corruption of moral values, both misdemeanors under Malawi...
...official at the Malawi embassy in Washington referred requests for comment to the Ministry of Information in the capital city of Lilongwe. Repeated calls to that office yesterday were unanswered...
...court Tuesday, the state prosecutor dropped the other charges, Mughogho said, and instead accused him of violating the Malawi Motor Traffic Act of 1997—“for excessive use of my hooter...
Mughogho said his case, which was widely reported in newspapers across Malawi, has bolstered the opposition movement across the country...