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Newspaper editor released on bail after 24 hours
Reporters Sans Frontiers
December 01, 2010

http://en.rsf.org/zimbabwe-newspaper-editor-arrested-in-01-12-2010,38935.html

Reporters Without Borders hails today's release of The Standard editor Nevanji Madanhire after he had been detained for about 24 hours in Harare's Rhodesville police station.

He was freed on bail of 100 U.S. dollars by judge Don Ndirowei, who ordered an investigation into a complaint by Madanhire's lawyer, Chris Mhike, about the length of Madanhire's detention.

Mhike said the police had violated a basic right by holding his client for so long after he turned himself in. "It seems that the dark times of human rights violations are back," he said. "I urge the judicial authorities to investigation.

Reporters Without Borders supports Mhike's statements and appeals to the authorities to call the police to order.

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