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Trial set for journalists

    JOHANNESBURG

    Two journalists of ‘The Standard’ newspaper are scheduled to appear before a full bench of appeal judges on 20 March arising out of an article they published last year alleging a miliary coup plot against President Robert Mugabe, the media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) reported on Wednesday.

    In a constitutional test case, the lawyers for the two journalists, Mark Chavunduka and Ray Choto, will challenge the validity of Section 50 (2) of the Law and Order Maintenance Act (LOMA), under which they were charged. Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa has argued that the pre-independence legislation should remain in the statute books.

    In a widely reported case, both men sustained serious injuries as a result of torture while in military police detention in January last year.

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