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Malawi Court Cancels Activists' Arrest Warrants

Published Thursday, October 22, 2026

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  • Lilongwe Chief Resident Magistrate Austin Banda ruled in favour of the three activists, who had challenged the validity of the warrants on the basis that the underlying criminal matter had already been discontinued by the State.

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  • AllAfrica

    A Lilongwe court has cancelled arrest warrants for former Human Rights Defenders Coalition leaders Gift Trapence, Timothy Mtambo, and Rev MacDonald Sembereka. The court ruled that the underlying criminal case had been discontinued by the State in 2020, making the warrants invalid.

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