Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Three Journalists Investigating Elephant Poisoning Charged With Slander

three journalists from Zimbabwe's state-owned weekly newspaper Sunday Mail were arrested in the capital, Harare, on November 2, 2015, after the paper published a report about more than 60 elephants being poisoned in Hwange National Park, according to news reports.

Mabasa Sasa, the editor, Brian Chitemba, the investigations editor, and Tinashe Farawo, a reporter, have been charged with slander over a front-page report that alleged officials, including a top police officer, were involved in a syndicate that was using cyanide to poison elephants and sell their tusks, according to the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists and news reports.

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