Two British journalists were set free on Thursday, April 14, in Zimbabwe after weeks of detention and legal battle.The arrest of the two journalists came about during last month's parliamentary elections which President Roberts Mugabe's Zanu-PF party won.
The Sunday Telegraph reporter Toby Harnden, 37, and photographer Julian Simmonds, 46, were accused of illegally covering the just ended Zimbabwe election.
The presiding magistrate said there is no evidence to show that the two journalists were working in the country illegally.
As for overstaying, magistrate Never Diza cleared the two Daily Telegraph journalists saying their visas did not expire as previously perceived. However, the magistrate ordered the journalists to be deported immediately.
Their lawyer said the two British journalists were ordinary tourists who went to Zimbabwe with a travel diary and took pictures.
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