CCC activist Joana Mamombe has revealed that she was never abducted and sexually assaulted in May 2020.
Mamombe together with Cecilia Chimbiri are facing charges of communicating falsehoods.
The activists denied that they had communicated or published to any friends that they had been abducted and that none of the communications they made at the material time was false.
It is their argument that the abduction claims were being used by the State functionaries to abuse them.
“The accused persons will tell the court that they did not at any stage tell any relative, friend or lawyer that they had been abducted. This is a narrative being yanked by the police and the State in order to abuse the accused.
“As it stands, there is an extant judgement of the High Court in which a factual finding is made that the accused did not communicate to any person that they had been abducted as is being alleged or at all,”
The trio’s lawyer Muchadehamha argued that his clients had notified people that they had been arrested, which was confirmed by the police spokesperson Paul Nyathi, as quoted in State media at the time.
