Police in Harare has raided the Media Centre and its director Ernest Mudzengi for running a website Zimbabwe Sentinel website www.zimsentinel.com for publishing a Gushungo story.
Mudzengi was picked up by three plain clothes police officers who said they wanted him to interogate him over a story on Gushungo Dairy (owned by President Robert Mugabe) bombing plot published by his website which was authored by a freelance jounalist Mlondolozi Ndlovu.
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has since deployed a lawyer to represent Mudzengi.
“Human rights lawyers have finally located journalist and at Harare Central Police. Police have informed lawyers that they are treating Earnest Mudzengi as a possible witness in a case in which they are investigating,”ZLHR spokesperson Kumbirai Mafunda told ZimEye.com.
Freelance jounalist Frank Chikowore wrote on his Face book page
“The arrest of Mudzengi is an affront to freedom of expression enshrined in the country’s constitution.
“There is no reason to arrest Mudzengi as some of the alleged plotters have since been convicted by a competent court of law in this land. Mudzengi MUST be released unconditionally”.
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