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MMPZ employees released without charges
Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe (MMPZ)
June 11, 2008

Three Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe (MMPZ) employees Abel Chikomo, Maureen Kademaunga and Abel Kaingidza who were arrested and detained for three nights by Binga Police in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland North province were on 11 June 2008 released without charges.

The three together with other 10 members of the MMPZ's Public Information Rights Forum (PIRF) were arrested on 8 June 2008 by police in Binga who accused them of holding a public meeting without clearance.

MMPZ Co-ordinator Andy Moyse said they had all been released and that the state had indicated that it would proceed by way of summons. Moyse told MISA-Zimbabwe that the meeting in question was not a public meeting but a professional meeting which did not require notification or clearance with the police in terms of the Public Order and Security Act (POSA).

Background
Moyse said their lawyers only managed to access the detained MMPZ employees and its PIRF members on 10 June 2008 following the intervention of police officers from Hwange Police's law and order section.

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