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Times Reporter Recounts Time Jailed in Zimbabwe

Journalist was detained by Mugabe regime for reporting on election

By Katherine Thompson,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 27, 2008 12:37 PM CDT

(Newser) – On April 3, Barry Bearak was arrested in Harare on charges of "committing journalism" and locked in a Zimbabwean prison. The New York Times reporter now tells the story of his imprisonment, which involved four days of negotiating the murky legal system with the...   Read full story »

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