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Zimbabwe police block newspaper


Daily News has been a critic of the government

Riot police have occupied the offices of Zimbabwe's only privately-owned daily newspaper, hours after a court ruled it could resume publication.

A lawyer for the Daily News told the BBC that police had ordered home staff who were trying to produce the paper's first edition since October.

Earlier, a judge in Bulawayo ruled the paper had the right to publish, despite its closure under tough new media laws.

Zimbabwe's information minister said that judgement had no legal force.

Jonathan Moyo called the ruling "outrageously political, unacceptable".

He said in the Herald newspaper that an appeal had already been lodged with the Supreme Court.

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