By AFPMore by this AuthorLUSAKAZambia's opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, facing treason charges, said Friday he had been moved from a prison in the capital Lusaka to a maximum security jail in a small town. "We can confirm that we have been moved to Mukobeko Maximum Prison in Kabwe. Armed police officers at the Lusaka prison had earlier bundled Hichilema and five co-accused into a van and drove them to the city airport, according to his lawyer Jack Mwiimbu. "There was a court order that they should be at Lusaka prison but they have gone against it. He was forcibly removed from Lusaka prison," Mwiimbu told reporters outside Lusaka Central prison where Hichilema had been detained since April 11.

Source: Daily Nation June 10, 2017 07:07 UTC