News Day Journalists who were arrested for publishing a CIO bonus story were on Friday released on $200 bail each by a Harare Magistrate Elijah Makomo.

Releasing the  Journalists ( Nqaba Matshazi (Deputy Editor) and Xolisani Ncube (reporter)   Magistrate  Makomo said they should also, surrender their travelling documents to the Harare Magistrate’s clerk of court, report every Friday to CID Harare and continue residing at their given addresses.
He also ordered them to return to the same court 27 January 2016.
The Office of the Prosecutor General which was represented by Sharon Mashavira was not opposed to the Journalists’ release.
Taona Nyamakura and Mzokhuthula Mbuyiso of Mtetwa &Nyambirai Legal Practitioners who are members of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights indicated that they were going to challenge the constitutionality of the charges which are being leveled against his clients.
The Journalists are being charged with contravening Section 31 (1) (ii) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act for allegedly publishing falsehoods.
The charges are emanating from a story they published on Wednesday which claimed that government in December secretly paid the CIO their salaries and bonuses.