Zimbabwe - Journalist kept in prison despite judicial release order

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the continued detention of Nqobani Ndlovu, the Bulawayo correspondent of the independent weekly The Standard, in defiance of a magistrate's order releasing him on bail. The journalist is being held in Khami prison in the south-western city and is suffering from diarrhoea. He was arrested on 17 November three days after his by-lined article appeared in The Standard in which he said the police had cancelled the annual promotion process and instead (...)

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