A Zimbabwean opposition MP facing an incitement-to-violence charge has been rejected the bail and will remain in jail until his November, a magistrate's court in the capital, Harare, has judges.

Job Sikhala was arrested in June during the violence broke out between ruling party and opposite party at a funeral wake near Chitungwiza area on the capital of outskirts.

Many opposition members were arrested and remain behind bars.

Mr Sikhala has been repeatedly denied bail in both the magistrate's and high courts, which ruled that he was likely to reoffend as he faces similar unrelated charges, although he has not been convicted on any of those charges. He denies that he incited violence.

He also faces of injustice charges.

His lawyers had applied for bail citing changed conditions.

In a tweet, lawyer and Citizen’s Colabaration for Change party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said bail was a constitutional right adding “this persecution must stop”.

A Zimbabwean journalist has also tweeted a letter that Mr Sikhala had allegedly written saying they were "living like rats" in prison and pleading to religious leaders to "rebuke the suffering of the weak".