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Zimbabwe summons UK envoy over expelled reporter

    JOHANNESBURG

    The Zimbabwean government on Wednesday summoned a British diplomat to complain that he had impeded police work when he aided a British journalist expelled last weekend, news reports said on Thursday.

    "I was summoned and we stated our position," Roger Hazelwood, first secretary to the British High Commission in Harare, was quoted as saying. Zimbabwean officials argued that British officials had interfered with the work of security officers, and accused Hazelwood of manhandling a police constable.

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