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Harare Magistrate Manase Musiwa has granted ZWL$500 bail each to Journalists Samuel Takawira and Frank Chikowore. The two were arrested last Friday for breaking COVID-19 regulations when they entered a hospital to interview three MDC Alliance youth members who were allegedly abducted and tortured by suspected

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Journalists Remanded In Custody

May 23, 2020

author: Elia Ntali

A Harare magistrate has remanded into custody two journalists who were yesterday arrested while conducting their duties at Parktown Hospital. Samuel Takawira (263Chat) and Frank Chikowore (Freelance) are being charged for contravening Section 11 (B) of SI 83 of 2020, Public Health (Covid-19 Prevention, Containment and