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The Swaziland Multi-Stakeholder Forum has tabled eight demands that it wants the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to take up with the government of Eswatini. | CdeLENIN

The Swaziland Multi-Stakeholder Forum has outlined an eight-point plan to solve problems in Eswatini.society organisations.The Swaziland Multi-Stakeholder Forum has tabled eight demands that it wants the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to take up with the government of Eswatini.The demands were presented by Tanele Maseko, the wife of slain human rights activist Thulani Maseko, who was gunned down in front of his family on 21 January this year.

- Release all political prisoners including but not limited to the two Members of Parliament, Mduduzi Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube. - Cease all state-sponsored victimisation, harassment and targeting of pro-democracy leaders and campaigners using the security forces and arbitrary application of the law.

The two had co-authored an article in the monthly Nation magazine that said that then-Chief Justice Michael Ramodibedi was abusing his powers.Maseko said: The darkest hour in their lives arrived unexpectedly. She was sitting next to her husband with the kids in the same room when a gunman shot him through the window.

 

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