FORMER president Edgar Lungu is demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Socialist Party president Dr Fred M´membe, who was arrested on Thursday and charged with sedition. Lungu says the political oppression, persecution and police brutality escalating under the new dawn government is ‘offside in football terms’ and must end. In a statement last evening, Lungu said the continued detention of Dr M’membe was a gross abuse of due process of the law and should not be condoned in a democratic country like Zambia. “Yesterday (Thursday), we learnt with a heavy heart, the unfair arrest of Socialist Party president Dr. Fred M´membe who was subsequently charged with sedition by state police. Given the fact that the offence is bondable under...