CEOAFRICA gathered that Nicholas Manditsera who had been on trial for allegedly insulting President Robert Mugabe had been acquitted by a Mutare Masgistrate.

Nicholas was arrested in September and charged with contravening a law which has been routinely used to nail dozens of political and human rights activists as well as ordinary Zimbabweans.

According to a Zimbabwe lawyers for Human Rights, Manditsera, a passenger clerk at NRZ is alleged to have insulted President Mugabe by uttering unprintable insults referring to the leader and his family.

However after a court ruling on Monday, Mutare Magistrate Chiwundura on Monday acquitted Manditsera after ruling that there were several inconsistencies between the two State witnesses who testified during the trial.