Paul Nyathi

Riot police who stormed the City of Harare full council meeting on Thursday and arrested councillors bundled three innocent journalists into the arresting trucks.

The three are Munashe Chokodza who is employed by online media 263Chat, Blessing Chidhakwa (Herald) and Takunda Mandura (Open Parly).

The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)-Zimbabwe has condemned the arrest of the three journalists.

Asked for comment on the journalists’ arrests, Information Ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana said the scribes were going to be released without charge.

“Any journalist who may have been rounded by the police will be released. Currently, they are just confirming who is a journalist and who is not,” Mangwana said.