Zimbabwe journalists arrested for linking police with elephant poisonings
by Associated Press in Harare from on (#SFYF)
Amnesty condemns 'shocking attempt to threaten freedom of the press' as trio from state-run Sunday Mail face slander charge
Three journalists from a state-run weekly newspaper in Zimbabwe will be charged with slander for a front-page story that implicated an unnamed top police officer and other officials in fatal cyanide poisonings of more than 60 elephants for tusks.
Sunday Mail editor Mabasa Sasa, investigations editor Brian Chitemba and reporter Tinashe Farawo were arrested on Monday, police spokeswoman Charity Charamba said.
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