Africa News of Thursday, 29 April 2021
Source: africanews.com
A Zimbabwean court on Wednesday dropped a charge against award-winning journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin'ono, who had been accused in January of tweeting falsehoods about alleged police violence.
Chin'ono, 50, has been detained three times since he backed banned anti-government protests on social media in July when he was first arrested and charged with inciting public violence.
Two tweets landed him back in jail for allegedly obstructing justice in November and then publishing false information in January.
The High Court of Zimbabwe dismissed the latter charge on Wednesday, declaring it had no legal basis.
Although 1 case used to politically persecute me has been quashed by the High Court, the State still refuses to give me my camera & journalism equipment.
— Hopewell Chin’ono Today (@daddyhope) April 28, 2021
The idea is to cripple my work.
There are still 2 more outstanding cases built on trumped-up charges as part of harassing me pic.twitter.com/DBZHk7JdFr