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Lawyer's absence stalls refugee smuggling trial

Contributed by NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 01 DEC (NAMPA) – The absence of a lawyer representing a Congolese woman accused of smuggling immigrants from her country into Namibia between 2013 and 2018, has stalled the continuation of the trial.
The trial was scheduled to resume before High Court Judge Dinah Usiku on Tuesday at the newly-furbished High Court building located at the premises of the Windhoek Central Correctional Facility, but could not proceed as the accused’s Otjiwarongo-based defence lawyer Kennedy Siyambango was not pr ...

 

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