Zimbabwe has issued an arrest warrant for award-winning writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga after she did not appear in court docket over prices of inciting violence, her prison expert said Tuesday.
Dangarembga, 63, is seeing her health practitioner in Germany and "not noted court docket for clinical reasons," her prison expert Chris Mhike knowledgeable AFP.
"We anticipate her to be well enough to head lower back to Zimbabwe imminently, and to attend to the super court docket processes."
Dangarembga come to be arrested in July 2020 for staging an anti-government protest alongside her neighbour withinside the wealthy Harare suburb of Borrowdale.
Standing with the resource of the use of the roadside, she held a banner that read "We want better -- reform our institutions."
Dangarembga come to be charged with inciting public violence and was freed on bail the following day.
Nearly years on, the trial has although now not started and Dangarembga has filed to have the case thrown out for lack of evidence.
A magistrate's court docket on Monday come to be due to rule on her request but issued the arrest warrant at the same time as she failed to show up.
Dangarembga will try to find to have the warrant cancelled, said the prison expert.
Dangarembga come to be charged after staging a roadside protest on the anniversary of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's election. By ZINYANGE AUNTONY (AFP)
The ruling on the software program for discharge will now be handed down on August 4.
Dangarembga stepped into the worldwide limelight in 1988 collectively at the side of her debut novel "Nervous Conditions," the number one ee-ebook published in English with the resource of the use of a black Zimbabwean woman.
The artwork earned her the prominent Commonwealth Writers' Prize the following year.
The Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) final week referred to as the Zimbabwe government to easy Dangarembga "of all prices, or to drop the case."
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