As the State of Emer­gency (SoE) en­tered its sec­ond week yes­ter­day with the con­tin­ued de­tain­ment of sev­er­al high-risk in­mates at Teteron Bar­racks, Ch­aguara­mas, one of them yes­ter­day scored a small vic­to­ry over the con­di­tions in which he is be­ing held.

Dur­ing a vir­tu­al hear­ing be­fore Jus­tice Maris­sa Robert­son, at­tor­ney Keron Ramkhal­wan, who rep­re­sents mur­der ac­cused Ra­jaae Ali, was or­dered to file af­fi­davits on his be­half by Ju­ly 31.

Yes­ter­day’s hear­ing came af­ter Ali raised yet an­oth­er chal­lenge over his trans­fer from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) to the mil­i­tary base on Ju­ly 18, as well as the con­tin­ued de­nial of ac­cess to his le­gal team.