Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)
25 August 2008
Reporter Rutendo Mawere of the privately-owned weekly "The Standard", who was arrested on 21 August 2008 in Gweru (in Midlands province), 280 km southwest of Harare, was released a few hours later without being charged. Mawere was arrested while watching police beat residents who had been queuing outside a shop for basic staples.
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