Zimbabwe court drops charges against diamond fields activist

Friday 22 October 2010 Farai Maguwu was charged with "publishing or communicating false information prejudicial to the state" after he reportedly told a diamond trade monitor about abuses carried out in Marange. Amnesty International has welcomed the withdrawal of charges against a Zimbabwean activist who was detained for five weeks after he exposed human rights violations in the country's diamond fields in Marange.On Thursday, at a magistrate's court in Harare, government lawyers withdrew all the charges against Farai Maguwu. However, these charges could be reinstated at a later date.Farai…

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