Georgetown, Guyana – November 3, 2026: Bonita Mohamed, mother of Guyana’s Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed, has launched an urgent High Court bid to overturn a lower court’s recent decision denying her son bail, after the 39-year-old politician was remanded to Lusignan Prison until November 24 on charges under the country’s Cyber Crime Act. The charges stem from allegations that Mohamed obtained and distributed closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage classified as national security data, linked to events outside the home of senior police intelligence official Senior Superintendent Prem Narine on October 12. In a sworn affidavit supporting the certiorari application, Bonita Mohamed argues that Sparendaam Magistrate Abigail Gibbs’s refusal of bail was procedurally unlawful, irrational, and failed to account for critical mitigating factors while improperly weighing irrelevant considerations. She emphasized that her son has a long, unbroken track record of complying with all prior bail conditions and appearing at every scheduled court hearing, a factor she claims the magistrate deliberately sidelined during the earlier ruling. The application further stresses that the non-violent offence Mohamed faces poses zero risk to public safety, and that he has no intention or ability to tamper with witnesses or obstruct the course of justice, with Bonita Mohamed providing a formal, solemn personal undertaking to ensure her son adheres strictly to all bail requirements if released. A core pillar of the submission centers on Guyana’s notoriously slow judicial process for indictable offences: legal representatives for the family, led by attorney Siand Dhurjon, presented analysis of Assizes court dockets over the past three years showing that the vast majority of pending cases involve severe, violent offences including murder, manslaughter, rape, and child sexual exploitation, and that no Cyber Crime Act-related case has ever been fast-tracked for trial. With standard timelines for indictable cases in Guyana stretching to a minimum of two years from charge filing to High Court trial, Bonita Mohamed warns that her son would face years of pre-trial detention effectively serving a de facto sentence for a relatively minor, non-violent allegation, even before he has the opportunity to prove his innocence. The filing also raises formal complaints about inadequate, unsanitary conditions at Lusignan Prison where Mohamed is currently being held, alongside a formal denial of the core charges: Bonita Mohamed states her son never paid any law enforcement official for the footage in question, contradicting statements from co-accused police officer Ryan Greene, who confessed to receiving GY$800,000 allegedly paid by Mohamed to obtain the clips. The affidavit lays out a detailed rationale for why Mohamed sought access to the CCTV footage in the first place: the family argues the clips directly dismantle multiple key claims in the government’s original press release announcing the charges, including disproving assertions that Mohamed’s vehicle was heavily tinted, that police engaged in a high-speed chase with the car, that Mohamed was seated in the back of the vehicle, and that an unlicensed firearm was discovered during an initial search. Instead, the footage shows the car was moving at a calm, lawful speed before being abruptly intercepted, Mohamed was clearly visible in the front passenger seat, and no firearm was found during a 10-minute initial search, with the alleged weapon only recovered during a controversial, unplanned search conducted more than two hours later at 2:20 a.m. The application cites Article 144(2)(c) of Guyana’s Constitution, which guarantees accused persons adequate access to materials required to prepare a full defence, noting that Mohamed acted to secure the footage after receiving credible information that state authorities planned to destroy the exculpatory evidence. Most notably, the filing raises a formal allegation of judicial bias against Magistrate Gibbs, pointing out that the magistrate’s fiancé, Deputy Superintendent of Police Jamine Bacon, was a lead investigator directly involved in the case that led to Mohamed’s arrest. The family’s legal team argues this direct personal and professional connection automatically disqualifies Gibbs from presiding over the proceedings under established common law principles of presumed bias, rendering her earlier bail refusal legally void and unenforceable.