{"id":30780,"date":"2011-12-06T17:36:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=30780"},"modified":"2011-12-06T17:36:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:36:01","slug":"zimbabwe-police-storm-offices-journalist-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=30780","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Police storm offices, journalist arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship : Zimbabwe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\">Zimbabwean<\/a> police <a title=\"IFEX : &quot;Daily News&quot; journalist arrested\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/zimbabwe\/2011\/12\/05\/ncube_arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\">stormed the offices<\/a> of a daily newspaper, and arrested one of it&#8217;s journalists last week.\u00a0Xolisani Ncube of\u00a0Daily News was arrested on December 2, in connection with an article about a government minister that appeared in the paper last month.\u00a0Newspaper editor, <a title=\"MENAFN : Police question Gama, Ncube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.menafn.com\/qn_news_story.asp?storyid=%7B2241e7a2-d4a1-48fb-b707-cd8282a3c77a%7D\" target=\"_blank\">Stanely Gama<\/a> handed himself over to the police after being summoned for the same investigation.\u00a0Police sources said it is likely the pair will be tried for criminal defamation following the article, &#8220;Chombo brags about riches&#8221;, in which they said Ingatius Chombo had bragged about his wealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean police stormed the offices of a daily newspaper, and arrested one of it&#8217;s journalists last week.\u00a0Xolisani Ncube of\u00a0Daily News was arrested on December 2, in connection with an article about a government minister that appeared in the paper last month.\u00a0Newspaper editor, Stanely Gama handed himself over to the police after being summoned for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[241,727,3983,7380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30805,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780\/revisions\/30805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}