Four Zimbabwean journalists detained on Friday while covering the eviction of a police officer from a government lodging were released without charge a day later, their lawyer said, according to a report on the News24 site. ‘This is harassment of journalists in the course of doing their legitimate work,’ lawyer Matshobana Ncube is quoted as saying. He said Nqobani Ndlovu, a reporter at the privately owned Standard newspaper, Pindai Dube and Oscar Nkala of The Daily News and freelancer Pamenus Tuso were accused of taking pictures during the eviction of a police officer accused of sympathising with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party. The arrests came two weeks after police detained the editor of The Standard and a staff reporter for a story that described a police officer as ‘notorious’.
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