Interim bail bid now filed for US-sanctioned LOO pending substantive application

…as DPP challenges hearsay, unsubstantiated claims in bail affidavit

United States (US)-sanctioned and indicted Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed is seeking interim bail while his substantive High Court application challenging the refusal of bail on a cybercrime charge remains pending, with the court scheduled to hear the interim application on November 12. The application, filed on Sunday, November 8 by his mother, Bonita Mohamed, proposes several conditions, including the surrender of his travel documents, a requirement that he remain in Guyana, regular reporting to a police station and restrictions on contact with his co-accused and prosecution witnesses, except through his attorney.

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Bonita Mohamed, who is pursuing the proceedings as her son’s next friend, argued that the delay in determining the substantive application is prejudicial to Mohamed, stating that “Each day in custody is prejudice which no later order can undo.”