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Three
of the seven journalists arrested on polling day still being held
Reporters Sans Frontieres
June 30, 2008
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27682
Reporters Without
Borders today condemned the arrest of seven Zimbabwean and foreign
journalists during the run-off presidential election that was a
foregone conclusion on 27 June. Three of them are still being held.
"In its
negotiations with Robert Mugabe, the African Union should remind
the outgoing head of state that journalism is not a crime",
the worldwide press freedom organization said.
Police arrested
British freelance photographer Richard Judson and Zimbabwean freelance
journalists Regis Marisamhuka and Agrison Manyenge on polling day
and they are still being held without charge at a Harare police
station.
Tumaole Mohlaoli
and Elelewani Ramphumedzi, respectively journalist and cameraman
on privately-owned South African television e.tv, were arrested
on the same day in the southern border town of Beitbridge. They
were freed after negotiations with South African police, after spending
one night in custody.
Freelance journalist
Frank Chikowore and cameraman Edgar Mwandiambira, who were arrested
close to the Mhofu primary school in the Highfields district of
Harare were released after voting ended, also without charge. They
were first taken to Southerton police station before being transferred
to a station in Machipisa.
"In a
Zimbabwe that is mired in an unprecedented crisis, independent witnesses
are seen as enemies of the presidential party", Reporters
Without Borders said. "Arrests have become the rule and the
Zimbabwean justice system is bogged down in Kafkaesque political
cases."
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