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Daily News photojournalist arrested
MISA-Zimbabwe
November 06, 2012

Watson Ofumeli, a photographer with the Daily News was arrested on Monday, 5 November 2012 by the police's law and order section while covering a raid by members of the force on the offices of the Counselling Services Unit (CSU) in Harare.

The officers raided the offices in search of what they described as offensive and subversive material.

Ofumeli was taken to Harare Central Police station where he was briefly detained and only released after being forced to delete the pictures that he had taken. He was arrested together with five CSU members of staff.

Meanwhile, prominent media lawyer, Alec Muchedehama has castigated the arrest noting that . . . the laws in Zimbabwe are not friendly to the practice of journalism or the free flow of information ."

Daily News group editor, Stanely Gama, has described Ofumeli's arrest as an assault on press freedom.

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