weekly newspaper.
Zimbabwe journalist and documentary filmmaker Hopewell Chin’ono was vindicated by a court ruling this week, but he has two further cases hanging over his head.
After the court ruling by High Court Justice Jester Charewa on 28 April that quashed criminal proceedings against him, the acclaimed journalist appeared resolute and immediately took the fight back to the State by suing them for “wrongful arrest, detention and malicious prosecution”.
Chin’ono, a critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule, was being prosecuted on charges of “publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to the State as defined in section 31(a)(iii) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act”, after claiming that he had tweeted that a child had been beaten to death by a police officer while on her mother’s back at a taxi rank.
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Zimbabwe: Falling economy, rights issues rob Independence Day festivities
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HARARE, Zimbabwe
A cross-section of people in Zimbabwe say that rising levels of poverty, lack of freedom, and human rights issues have cast a shadow on the 41st Independence Day celebrations being observed on Saturday.
Zimbabwe gained its independence from British colonial rule on April 18, 1980, ending 90 years of settler rule.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Nkululeko Maseko, 73, a former police officer under the Rhodesian government now living in capital Harare’s Highfields low-income suburb, said his incomes have continued to fall over the years.
“I wish if I could turn back the hands of time,” he said.