Mokone case resumes today

Mokone was arrested on September 8, 2014 and charged with sedition, a section 50 and 51 colonial era law under the Penal Code. Mokone was arrested for the story, which the Commissioner of Police, Keabetswe Makgophe felt was seditious. His colleague senior journalist at the Weekender, Edgar Tsimane, fled the country and sought political asylum in South African.  He was granted temporary asylum up to the day of the general elections, October 24, 2014.

When Mokone appeared at the High Court on September 9, his lawyers and the prosecutors reached an out of court order, agreed before Justice Lesetedi. His attorney Duma Boko submitted that the applicant be released from custody and that the respondents should not execute and implement the warrant of arrest issued on September 2, 2014 by the Gaborone chief magistrate for the editor’s apprehension.