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A Zambian tribunal has sentenced Leonard Phiri and Mozambican Jasten Mabulesse Candunde to 2 years successful situation for trying to usage witchcraft to termination President Hakainde Hichilema.
They were arrested successful December with charms, including a unrecorded chameleon.
“It is my considered presumption that the convicts were not lone the force of the caput of authorities but were besides enemies of each Zambians,” Magistrate Fine Mayambu said.
The men were allegedly hired by a fugitive erstwhile MP. Despite claiming to beryllium accepted healers, they were recovered blameworthy connected 2 counts nether the Witchcraft Act.
“The 2 accepted ownership of the charms. Phiri further demonstrated that the chameleon’s tail, erstwhile pricked and utilized successful the ritual, would origin decease to hap wrong 5 days,” the magistrate added.
Lawyer Agrippa Malando said his clients pleaded for leniency arsenic first-time offenders, but the tribunal rejected the request.
The men besides received six months for possessing charms, but the sentences tally concurrently.
President Hichilema, who does not judge successful witchcraft, has not commented. The Witchcraft Act, passed successful 1914, is seldom utilized but aims to support nine from fearfulness and harm.
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