Abel Chikomo, Maureen Kademanga and Abel Kaingidza, employees of the Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe (MMPZ) and 10 other members of the organisation’s Public Information Rights Forum. Andrew Neshamba, former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation bureau chief in Manicaland. Abel Chikomo, Maureen Kademaunga and Abel Kaingidza, employees of the Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe (MMPZ) and 10 other members of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act which deals with publication of a statement prejudicial to the state following the publication of an opinion piece written by Professor Arthur Mutambara leader of the other formation of the MDC. The trial failed to commence after the state set a joint trial date for all the matters related to the case. Trial date eventually set for 17 June 2008. Arrested and detained by 8June 2008 police in Binga who accused them of holding a public meeting without police clearance. MMPZ co-ordinator Andrew Moyse said the meeting in question was not a public meeting but a professional meeting which did not require notification or clearance with the police in terms of the Public Order and Security Act (POSA). Charged with abuse of duty as 9 June 2008 a public officer in contravention of Section 174 of the Criminal Law (codification and Reform) Act. Mutare provincial magistrate Chipadze agreed to postpone the case by at least two months following application to stop proceedings pending its appeals against the magistrate’s decision to dismiss an application that ZBC was not a public body as envisaged by the law in question. The matter was remanded to 4 August 2008. Arrested and detained by 11 June 2008 police in Binga who accused them of holding a public meeting without police clearance. Released without charges after spending three 30