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Zimbabwean journalist Chin’ono released after three-week detention

Hopewell Chin'ono.

Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono speaks to the press after his release on bail from Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare on September 2, 2020.  PHOTO | AFP

By  Kitsepile Nyathi

Correspondent in Harare, Zimbabwe

Nation Media Group

A Zimbabwean High Court judge on Wednesday released prominent journalist Hopewell Chin'ono on bail after he spent nearly three weeks in jail for allegedly communicating falsehoods.

Chin'ono was arrested on January 9 for tweeting that a police officer had allegedly beaten an infant to death while enforcing Covid-19 lockdown regulations.

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