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>Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 17:31:42 -0200
>From: David Lush - MISA <dlush@ingrid.misa.org.na>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <misa-news@wn.apc.org>
>Subject: ZAMBIA ALERT UP-DATE
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>ACTION ALERT UP-DATE - ZAMBIA
>MARCH 1, 1996
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>REWARD OFFERED FOR ARREST OF POST TRIO
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>Police have offered a reward of Kwatcha 2 million (U$2000) for the arrest
>of Editor-in-Chief of The Post newspaper, Fred M'membe, the paper's
>Managing Editor Bright Mwape, and columnist Lucy Sichone, the
>government-controlled Daily Mail newspaper reported today (March 1).
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>The Daily Mail quoted police spokesperson Francis Musonda as saying the
>police were offering the reward to anyone with information of the
>whereabouts of the three, who have been keeping low since last Friday
>(February 23) when they failed to appear before Parliament's Standing
>Orders Committee for sentencing having been found guilty by the Speaker of
>the National Assembly of being in contempt of parliament.
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>Meanwhile, The Post reported today that police wrongly arrested and
>detained two of the paper's journalists and a security guard in the belief
>they were the missing editors. According to The Post, George Jambwa, Sheikh
>Chifuwe and security guard George Kapambwe were arrested at around 20:00 on
>Thursday evening at a bus stop in central Lusaka and taken to a city centre
>police station. The three were reportedly released an hour later when the
>police realised that the people they had arrested were not the wanted
>editors.
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>ends
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>David Lush
>Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)
>Private Bag 13386
>Windhoek, Namibia
>Tel. +264 61 232975, Fax. 248016
>e-mail: dlush@ingrid.misa.org.na
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