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Zimbabwe editor 'to get passport' | |
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Zimbabwe's High Court has ordered the government to restore the passport to prominent government critic and newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube. | Zimbabwe's High Court has ordered the government to restore the passport to prominent government critic and newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube. |
His passport was seized last year under new laws tightening rules on those with foreign parents gaining citizenship. | |
Mr Ncube was born in Zimbabwe but his father was Zambian. He owns two weekly papers in Zimbabwe and South Africa's weekly Mail and Guardian. | Mr Ncube was born in Zimbabwe but his father was Zambian. He owns two weekly papers in Zimbabwe and South Africa's weekly Mail and Guardian. |
"My faith in the Zimbabwean judiciary has been vindicated," Mr Ncube said. | "My faith in the Zimbabwean judiciary has been vindicated," Mr Ncube said. |
Judge Chinembiri Bhunu said there was no legal reason to strip Mr Ncube of his nationality. | |
"It is accordingly ordered that [Ncube] is a citizen of Zimbabwe by birth... the withdrawal or cancellation of his citizenship is unlawful, null, void and of no force or effect," the judge ruled. | |
He ordered Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede to give Mr Ncube a passport within seven days. | |
Precedent | |
"The attempt to use citizenship as a tool to fight perceived political enemies and to settle personal scores must be condemned in the strongest terms," Mr Ncube said. | |
He added that the ruling should help some 1.5m Zimbabweans with foreign parents. | |
Mr Ncube's passport was first seized in 2005 before it was returned following a successful legal challenge. | |
Last year, the government said Mr Ncube's citizenship had been revoked because he had not renounced his Zambian nationality as stipulated under new nationality regulations. | |
Mr Ncube's lawyer said his client had never had Zambian nationality. His mother was Zimbabwean. | |
Zimbabwean law bans dual nationality. | Zimbabwean law bans dual nationality. |
Mr Ncube's papers, The Zimbabwe Independent and Zimbabwe Standard, often publish articles criticising the government of President Robert Mugabe. |
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