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Chanda Chimba III Denied Bail

Freelance journalist Chanda Chimba the Third has been denied bail pending appeal by the Lusaka magistrate.
Lusaka Magistrate Obister Musukwa denied Chimba bail on grounds that there is no special circumstance to warrant an appeal.
Chanda Chimba was on 29th November 2015 sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for disposing more than 611 million Kwacha suspected to be proceeds of crime which he paid to public and private media houses to air his controversial TV program ‘Stand Up For Zambia’.
He was also fined a sum of 1000 kwacha for unlawful printing and publication of two newspapers stand up for Zambia and News of Our Times.

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