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Editors warned

    JOHANNESBURG

    In a separate development, MISA reported that the two senior editors of the ‘Zimbabwe Independent’ had been cautioned over a Reuters picture in the paper on March 3 showing a group of naked Austrians in a stampede for special offers outside a Vienna department store.

    Editor-in-Chief Trevor Ncube and Deputy Editor Iden Wetherell on Tuesday made “warned-and-cautioned” statements at Harare Central Police Station. MISA said police were making “inquiries” under the Censorship and Entertainment Control Act. The editors, in a statement, insisted the picture was not indecent.

    “At a time when Zimbabweans are facing unprecedented hardships as a result of gross economic mismanagement and corruption it is significant that the attorney-general, a member of the cabinet, has instructed the police to investigate a newspaper that has been outspoken in its criticism of government for not upholding the rule of law,” said a statement signed by Ncube.

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