Reporter in Zimbabwe Ordered Freed
Posted: Sunday, March 31, 2002

HARARE, Zimbabwe –– A High Court judge on Sunday ordered police to free a Zimbabwean correspondent for a British newspaper who had been detained for allegedly violating severe new media laws.

Judge Mohammed Adam said he found no reason for the continued detention of Peta Thornycroft, 57, a Harare-based correspondent for the British Daily Telegraph and two South African newspapers.

Thornycroft was arrested Wednesday in Chimanimani, 300 miles southeast of Harare, lawyer Tapiwanashe Kujinga said. MORE 

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