Moyo causes arrest of company directors

Headlines, News — By on February 16, 2010 12:43 pm

HARARE – Two directors of a newspaper distribution company have been charged at the instigation of the embattled former Information and Publicity Minister and Tsholotsho MP Professor Jonathan Moyo over the news story which revealed Tsholotsho II.

The editor of the Zimbabwean newspaper Wilf Mbanga said these charges are ludicrous. The Zimbabwean is actually published in Britain, but flown into the country three times a week and distributed countrywide.

Two directors of the company that distribute the newspaper were summoned by police this week.

They have been charged with publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the State, but Jonathan Moyo is not even a cabinet Minister and Zanu PF instability cannot be linked to the State since it is nolonger the sole ruling party.

Mbanga said the pair had nothing to do with the story that caused a storm. The story was first published by The Zimbabwe Mail, an online publication owned by a consortium of Zimbabwean businessmen based in Zimbabwe.

The offending piece was about infighting in ZANU-PF, and was published in January. 

The Harare-based Media Monitoring Project said a year after the formation of the power-sharing government, journalists continue to be harassed, arrested and prosecuted under repressive media laws. Zimbabwe Mail

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