organisation’s Public Information Rights Blessed Mhlanga, former reporter with the Network Guardian in Kwekwe. Davison Maruziva, editor of The Standard, Professor Aurthur Mutambara leader of the other formation of the MDC. Freelance journalist Frank Chikowore. nights in police custody. Mhlanga together with 11 June 2008 colleagues Wycliff Nyarota and James Muonwa are facing charges of contravening Section 80 (1) (a) (2) of AIPPA which prohibits publication of falsehoods following publication of a story which alleged that George Muvhimi and Tatenda Munhanga were caught having sexual intercourse in a vehicle at Mbizo shopping centre in Kwekwe. Kwekwe magistrate Oliver Mudzingachiso acquitted Mhlanga after he found that none of the state witnesses had implicated him. His co-accused were, however, put to their defence. Accused of contravening 17 June 2008 Section 31 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act. The charges arise from the publication of an article by Professor Mutambara which appeared in The Standard on 20 April 2008. Their trial was postponed to 10 July 2008 after the state indicated that it was still to provide the defence counsel with the state papers and that the prosecutor responsible for the case was attending to other commitments. Charged with public violence 19 June 2008 with 12 others who include Luke Tamborinyoka, the MDC director of information. The offence arises from the alleged torching of bus in Harare’s suburb of Warren Park on 15 April 2008. Trial postponed to 14July 2008 after the state advised the court of the absence of the 31