Zimbabwe: Editor Detained, Questioned Over Satirical Article

press release

Golden Maunganidze, an editor with the privately owned "The Masvingo Mirror", was on 23 February 2011 arrested in the southern town of Masvingo on allegations of criminally defaming a senior Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) politician.

Police in Masvingo questioned and detained Maunganidze for about two hours before releasing him. They asked him to return to the police station on 24 February in the company of his lawyers and indicated that they were likely to charge him with criminal defamation.

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