BONELA�s urgent application for contempt of court dismissed

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Gift Mwale consulting with his lawyer Friday Leburu

Justice Terrence Rannoane has dismissed an urgent application in a case in which Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) wanted two Permanent Secretaries (PS) jailed for contempt of court.

The two officials from Ministry of Health (MoH) and Ministry Justice, Defence and Security were cited for allegedly defying a court order delivered last August by Justice Bengbame Sechele that government should provide two Zimbabwean prisoners with free ARVs.

The judge also ordered the government to provide foreign inmates with ARVs for free. At the time of conclusion of the case, the Zimbabweans had been released from prison.

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BONELA�s urgent application for contempt of court dismissed

Justice Terrence Rannoane has dismissed an urgent application in a case in which Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) wanted two Permanent Secretaries (PS) jailed for contempt of court.

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