Journalist jailed in Zimbabwe 'may soon be freed'
Posted: Friday, March 29, 2002By Mark Wilkinson Independent UK
Hopes were raised yesterday that a national newspaper reporter being held in prison in Zimbabwe would soon be freed.
Peta Thornycroft, of The Daily Telegraph, was arrested on Wednesday and led to believe she had been charged with "publishing false statements prejudicial to the state" under the widely condemned new Public Order Security Act.
But the newspaper today said she had been charged only with two lesser offences – possessing a car with an incorrect number plate and working illegally as a journalist. MOREPrinter friendly version
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