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Daily News chiefs in court
28/10/2003 12:19 - (SA)
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| Spoke too soon - the paper was back on the streets for just one edition. (AP) |
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Harare - The publisher and three directors of the Daily News, an independent newspaper highly critical of President Robert Mugabe's government, arrested for publishing without a licence, are to appear in court on Tuesday.
A company lawyer, Gugulethu Moyo, said the four, who had spent the night in police cells after their arrest on Monday, were due in a magistrate's court on Tuesday morning.
One of the paper's directors, Washington Sansole, arrested in the second city of Bulawayo on Sunday, was released on Monday following a High Court order to free him.
The charges against the paper's owners -- who include the paper's publisher Samuel Nkomo - follow the return to the news-stands on Saturday of the Daily News, six weeks after it was shut down by the authorities.
Police moved in to shut down the paper's city offices for the second time in as many months, and briefly detained 18 staff members.
The paper's directors decided to resume publishing a day after a court ruled that a state-appointed media commission had been wrong to deny the paper a licence when it applied for one in September.
It ordered the paper to be licensed by November 30.
- AFP
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