The police have charged the two Newsday journalists arrested this week, with publishing falsehoods and denied them access to justice by diverting them from going to the courts before detaining them up to Friday when they will appear in court.
The two journalists, Nqaba Matshazi (Deputy Editor) and Xolisani Ncube (reporter) who were arrested Thursday morning after shaming the state that in December when it failed to pay civil servants, it secretly dished out salaries and bonuses to members of the Central Intelligence Organisation.
The journalists’ attorneys told ZimEye.com that the police diverted them when they were heading for the Harare Magistrate’s court for the hearing of their clients’ case.
“We were on way to the courts and from nowhere we were made to return to the Harare Central Police station upon which we were told that our clients will go to court Friday morning”, said  lawyers Taona Nyamakura and Mzokhuthula Mbuyiso of Mtetwa & Nyambirai Legal Practitioners.
They said their clients will appear in court on Friday for initial remand.