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/ 16 April 2008

Zim court clears US, UK journalists

A court in Zimbabwe on Wednesday acquitted a United States and a British journalist of covering the country’s March 29 elections without accreditation. Magistrate Gloria Takundwa said the state’s evidence against New York Times correspondent Barry Bearak and Britain’s Stephen Bevan was ”inconsistent and unreliable”.

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/ 14 April 2008

Zim court dashes MDC election hopes

Zimbabwe’s High Court on Monday refused to order the immediate release of delayed presidential election results, in a major blow to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Rejecting an MDC application to force the electoral commission to release the result, Judge Tendai Uchena said: ”I dismiss the case with costs.”

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/ 14 April 2008

Zim court releases SA technicians

Two South African technicians arrested two weeks ago under Zimbabwe’s laws relating to the media and defeating the course of justice were acquitted and freed on Monday, a colleague said. ”We heard a few minutes ago — they were acquitted on all charges,” said Abdulhak Gardee, financial director of their employer, GlobeCast Africa.

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/ 6 April 2008

Zim court delays election ruling

A Zimbabwe court delayed until Monday a ruling on whether it could order the release of presidential election results, which President Robert Mugabe is trying to hold up. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) opposition says Mugabe wants to delay the result to help him find a way out of the biggest crisis of his 28-year rule.

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/ 23 January 2008

Zim court allows opposition protest

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party was given permission on Wednesday to stage a protest rally against President Robert Mugabe after its leader Morgan Tsvangirai was briefly detained by police. Police had slapped a blanket prohibition on the protest called by the Movement for Democratic (MDC) as a show of strength.

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