Patrick Mugadza, a preacher
in the tourist resort town of Victoria Falls, told journalists last week that
he had received a prophecy from God that Mugabe would die on Oct. 17.
The
Zimbabwean activist pastor appeared in court on Wednesday after police arrested
him for predicting that President Robert Mugabe would die in October this year.
Mugadza was arrested on
Monday after appearing at the magistrate court on a separate charge of abusing
the national flag. He also faces another charge of public nuisance after
holding a one-man anti-government protest last year.
Prosecutors could not
formally lay charges of criminal nuisance on Mugadza because his lawyers
objected to an additional charge of "offences to persons of particular
religion or race."
He will return to court on
tomorrow.
Zimbabwean police often
arrest political activists for insulting or undermining Mugabe's office, but
most of the cases have been dismissed by the courts.
Mugabe has since December
been in Singapore on his annual holiday. He also traveled to China and Mali in
between.
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