and Reform Act). Harrison Nkomo, leading Charged under Section 33 of 9 May 2008 media lawyer the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act for allegedly making an insulting statement against the President on 2 may 2008. Released on Z$5 billion bail and ordered to surrender his passport and report to Harare Central Police’s Law and Order Section every Friday. Bail was granted by Harare magistrate Jarabini at Parirenyatwa Hospital where he had briefly been admitted under detention for hypertension. Bright Chibvuri, editor of the Convicted on 29 April 2008 of 22 May 2008 Zimbabwe Congress of Trade contravening Section 83 (1) of Unions’ The Worker AIPPA which criminalised magazine. practicing journalism without accreditation. His lawyer engaged by MISA-Zimbabwe under its Media Defence Fund facility, filed an appeal against both conviction and sentence with the High Court on 15 May 2008. His lawyer engaged by MISA-Zimbabwe under its Media Defence Fund facility, filed an appeal against both conviction and sentence with the High Court on 15 May 2008. Davison Maruziva, editor of Charged with publishing or 23 May 2008 the privately owned weekly, communicating a statement The Standard. prejudicial to the state in contravention of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act. The alleged offence arises from an opinion piece that appeared in the weekly edition of 20 April 2008 which was written by Professor Arthur Mutambara leader of the other formation of the Movement for Democratic Change. Trial date set for 5 June 2008 by Harare magistrate Dorris Shomwe 25