'No case against journalists'
05/04/2008 09:05  - (SA)  

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Harare - Zimbabwe's attorney general has concluded that there is no case against two foreign journalists who were arrested for operating without accreditation, their lawyer said on Friday.

"The attorney general's office says there is no case to answer," lawyer Harrison Nkomo said.

"Legally, this means the attorney general's office has refused to prosecute them on those particular charges and this means they should be released.

"What we do not know is whether the police are going to release them or they will prefer other charges."

New York Times correspondent Barry Bearak, 58, and a 45-year-old journalist from Britain were both detained on Thursday during a raid on a Harare guest house and later charged with breaching the country's tough media laws.

Police say the reporters had been trying to cover the country's general election without authorisation.

 

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