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May 8th, 2008
Posted: 08:42 AM ET
(CNN) — Two journalists and the lawyer for a third have been arrested in Zimbabwe in recent days, their spokesmen said Thursday, amid signs the Zimbabwean government is intensifying a post-election crackdown. Davison Maruziva, the editor of the Zimbabwe newspaper The Standard, was arrested for publishing a commentary piece by an opposition leader, according to the newspaper’s project editor, Iden Witherall. A Zimbabwean photographer for Reuters has been held for three days without charge, the news agency said Thursday. Police accused Howard Burditt of using a satellite phone to transmit pictures, Reuters said. Burditt has accreditation to work in the country, the agency said. Wednesday, police arrested Harrison Nkomo, a lawyer who represented New York Times journalist Barry Bearak when Bearak was briefly detained last month, the rights group Human Rights Watch said. Bearak, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter based in Johannesburg, South Africa, spent four nights in jail in Zimbabwe on charges of “committing journalism” while covering the election. |
 
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