A 17-YEAR-OLD resident of northern Namibia was freed from Police custody yesterday, five days after being detained as a suspected illegal immigrant because he had failed to recite his full name to an immigration officer at a roadblock.
High Court Judge Annel Silungwe was informed of Shefeni Daniel Linekela’s release yesterday afternoon, as Legal Assistance Centre lawyer Norman Tjombe was wrapping up his application to the Judge for an urgent order to let him go. The teenager had been freed at about 13h00, Gerson Narib, a lawyer attached to the Office of the Government Attorney, told the Judge.Narib arrived in the courtroom just as Tjombe was completing his request for an urgent interdict against the Minister of Home Affairs, the Ondangwa Police Station’s commander and senior immigration officials.Linekela is just one of scores of Namibians who have been stopped at Police and immigration roa
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