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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>High Court judge Justice David Foroma on Thursday reserved judgement indefinitely on journalist Hopewell Chin\u2019ono\u2019s bail appeal.<\/p>\n

Chin\u2019ono appealed after being denied bail by a Harare magistrate who ruled that he was likely to re-offend if granted bail.<\/p>\n

Chin\u2019ono was arrested and charged with peddling falsehoods after he allegedly tweeted that a police officer had fatally beaten up a little baby in Harare while enforcing lockdown regulations.<\/p>\n

The lower court said it had found there is overwhelming evidence against him but Chin\u2019ono contends that the magistrate erred in denying him bail.<\/p>\n

Chin\u2019ono has been arrested three times since the COVID-19 lockdown came into effect last year and all the arrests have to do with his posts on the microblogging platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. High Court judge Justice David Foroma on Thursday reserved judgement indefinitely on journalist Hopewell Chin\u2019ono\u2019s bail appeal. Chin\u2019ono appealed after being denied bail by a Harare magistrate who ruled that he was likely to re-offend if granted bail. Chin\u2019ono was arrested and charged with peddling falsehoods after he allegedly tweeted that a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,2626,2624,1529,2625,2623,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-33188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-bail","14":"tag-david-foroma","15":"tag-hopewell-chinono","16":"tag-justice-david-foroma","17":"tag-justice-foroma","18":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\nJustice Foroma Reserves Ruling On Chin\u2019ono\u2019s Bail Appeal - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"High Court judge Justice David Foroma on Thursday reserved judgement indefinitely on journalist Hopewell Chin\u2019ono\u2019s bail ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/justice-foroma-reserves-ruling-on-chinonos-bail-appeal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Justice Foroma Reserves Ruling On Chin\u2019ono\u2019s Bail Appeal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"High Court judge Justice David Foroma on Thursday reserved judgement indefinitely on journalist Hopewell Chin\u2019ono\u2019s bail ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/justice-foroma-reserves-ruling-on-chinonos-bail-appeal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-21T18:38:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-21T17:10:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/01\/img-6009b571f2fdd.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/justice-foroma-reserves-ruling-on-chinonos-bail-appeal\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/justice-foroma-reserves-ruling-on-chinonos-bail-appeal\",\"name\":\"Justice Foroma Reserves Ruling On Chin\u2019ono\u2019s Bail Appeal - 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