Blessed Mhlanga, James Muonwa and Wycliff Nyarota journalists employed by the Network Guardian. Harrison Nkomo, leading media lawyer prosecutor to familiarise himself with the case. The charge against Chikowore arises from the torching of a bus in Harare’s suburb of Warren Park on 15 April 2008. Charged with contravening 6 May 2008 the Supreme Court-nullified Section 80 (1) (A) (2) of the repressive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) which used to prohibit publication of falsehoods. The state alleges that on 26 March 2006, the three or one of them, unlawfully and intentionally and recklessly falsified information that is injurious to the reputation, rights and freedoms of others and published a story that George Muvhimi and Tatenda Munhanga were caught with their pants down while having sexual intercourse in a vehicle at Mbizo Shopping Centre in Kwekwe. Trial postponed after one of the state witnesses failed to turn up. Arrested and detained at 7 May 2008 Harare Central Police Station over an allegedly insulting statement he made against the President on 2 May 2008. He is accused of having made the statement to Michael Mugabe who is a law officer in the Attorney-General’s Office on 2 April 2008 by allegedly saying: “Go and tell your father that he must vacate office because he has failed to rule.” His lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa indicated that he was likely to be charged under Section 33 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act which deals with undermining the authority or 23