Daily News reporters arrested in Harare - Zimbabwe

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Harare - Police in Zimbabwe on Saturday arrested several workers from the independent Daily News, only hours after the paper reappeared on the streets following its closure, the paper's legal advisor told reporters.

"The police are arresting people right now," said Gugulethu Moyo.

Moyo acts as legal advisor to the newspaper - a staunch critic of President Robert Mugabe - which had only reappeared on Saturday, more than a month after it was shut down by police.

police vehicle outside the paper's offices in central Harare.

"The police have gone through our offices again," Moyo said. She could not say how many people had been arrested.

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1. More arrested in media blitz - 26/10/2003

Harare - Police detained two newspaper owners, including a former judge and the relative of another in the latest crackdown on Zimbabwe's independent media.

Police arrested Associated Newspapers Zimbabwe director and retired high court judge Washington Sansole at his Bulawayo home early on Sunday said Gugulethu Moyo, the group's lawyer.

Police ordered he not be freed until all six executive members of the media group surrender themselves, Moyo said.

The crackdown follows the publishing on Saturday of the Daily News, owned by the company, after more than six weeks.

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2. SA government's 'scandalous silence'

The South African government's silence on the persecution of the owners and staff of the Zimbabwean newspaper The Daily News by the authorities in that country, is scandalous, Democratic Alliance spokesperson Graham McIntosh said on Monday.

"The persecution of The Daily News by President Mugabe's government, as well as its intolerance of points of view in the media which are not managed by Zanu-PF commissars, is an international scandal.

"Equally scandalous is the South African government's silence on the matter," he said in a statement.

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