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Police question Newsday journalist
MISA-Zimbabwe
November 17, 2010

Dumisani Sibanda bureau chief with the privately owned daily, Newsday, was on 16 November 2010 briefly detained and questioned by the police at Bulawayo Central Police station.

Sibanda, who is also the president of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ), was questioned in connection with a story that appeared in the Newsday's weekly stable mate, The Standard, regarding the alleged cancellation of police promotional examinations.

The story alleged that the police examinations were being scrapped to facilitate the absorption of war veterans and retired police officers in the police force ahead of the 2011 elections.

Sibanda told MISA-Zimbabwe that police from the Criminal Investigations Department's Law and Order section picked him from the Newsday offices in Bulawayo on 16 November 2010. He said the police wanted him to disclose the whereabouts of Nqobani Ndlovu, the author of the story in question, as a precondition for his release.

He was later released after telling them that Nqobani was out of town.

Meanwhile, the police reportedly descended on the Newsday offices on the morning of 17 November 2010 looking for Ndlovu who was not in the office the material time.

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