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Critics Decry Zimbabwe's Press Freedom Failures

Columbus Mavhunga

   HARARE - November marks three years since Zimbabwe's President Emmerson
   Mnangagwa took power from the late Robert Mugabe and promised to honor
   his people's constitutional rights. But critics say freedom of the
   press is not being respected, pointing to the two arrests this year of
   journalist Hopewell Chin'ono.

   Hopewell Chin'ono exchanged words with prosecutors after his second
   arrest this year -- both triggered by messages on Twitter.

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