Zimbabwe Police Arrest Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono for 'Publishing Falsehoods'
January 09, 2021
Gibbs Dube
FILE: Zimbabwe's investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono gets out of a prison van at the magistrates courts in Harare, Nov. 6, 2020.
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MARYLAND —
Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has been arrested again on allegations of publishing what police claim are falsehoods prejudicial to the state.
In a tweet on Friday, Chin’ono wrote, “The police have come to arrest me! Let everyone know!
They say they are charging me with communicating falsehoods for tweeting that a child had been beaten up by a police officer and died! They are taking me to the Law and Order Section at Harare Central Police Station.”