{"id":30851,"date":"2020-12-03T21:43:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=30851"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:43:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:43:49","slug":"three-journalists-arrested-during-chi-town-council-meeting-misa-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/three-journalists-arrested-during-chi-town-council-meeting-misa-zimbabwe","title":{"rendered":"Three Journalists Arrested During Chi-town Council Meeting \u2013 MISA Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Three journalists and three journalism students were on 3 December 2020 arrested in Harare\u2019s dormitory town of Chitungwiza following a dragnet swoop by the police on a full council meeting of Chitungwiza Municipality.<\/p>\n<p>According to lawyer Chris Mhike, deployed by MISA Zimbabwe, the arrested journalists are freelance journalist Philemon Jambaya, Audrey Galawu of ZimMorning Post and Albert Masaka, editor of Zimbomedia.<\/p>\n<p>The three students are reportedly attached to Chitungwiza Municipality\u2019s public relations and communications department.<\/p>\n<p>Mhike said the journalists were being held at St Mary\u2019s Police Station and were already being attended to by lawyers from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights when he arrived at the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Three journalists and three journalism students were on 3 December 2020 arrested in Harare\u2019s dormitory town of Chitungwiza following a dragnet swoop by the police on a full council meeting of Chitungwiza Municipality. According to lawyer Chris Mhike, deployed by MISA Zimbabwe, the arrested journalists are freelance journalist Philemon Jambaya, Audrey Galawu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":30850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,35,15],"tags":[1493,612,1639,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-30851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-chitungwiza","13":"tag-misa-zimbabwe","14":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Three Journalists Arrested During Chi-town Council Meeting \u2013 MISA Zimbabwe - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/three-journalists-arrested-during-chi-town-council-meeting-misa-zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three Journalists Arrested During Chi-town Council Meeting \u2013 MISA Zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. 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