THE prominent Zimbabwean opposition politician, Job Sikhala, has been fined and given a nine-month suspended prison sentence after being found guilty of publishing falsehoods on social media.
In 2021 he said that a police officer had killed a child at a bus stop.
Sikhala’s lawyer said he should never have been charged in the first place under a law which the top court long ruled to be unconstitutional.
The politician has just been released from almost two years of pre-trial detention on unrelated charges.
He has accused the government of weaponising the courts, and faces another appearance on Friday.
