Malawi police charge journalists over EU team: On bail

Malawi Police have pressed charges to  journalist Golden Matonga of Nation Publications Limited and Zodiak Broadcasting Station staff Steven Zimba and Francis Chamosowa with ‘behaving in disorder manner’ contrary  to Sectuon 26 of the Aviation Act.

Matonga arrested but freed on bail

The journalists were arrested on Wednesday at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwed  for taking and trying  to take, photographs  at the airport’s Very Important Persons (VIP) section as European Union (EU) Election Observer Mission (EOM) delegation arrived in the country.

The mission was due to present its final report on the disputed May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections  but after intense resistance from some quarters  they have shelded the release.

Police held the journalists in a  cell within the airport for about an hour and a half and later released them on bail.

The journalists will appear in court on January 18 to answer the charges.

Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Malawi chapter chairperson Tereza Ndanga  said the body is “worried” that authorities continue to “treat journalism as a crime.”

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14 replies on “Malawi police charge journalists over EU team: On bail”

  1. The Mutharika administration surely is the most useless of all time. When you hire cadets like Dausi, Mchacha and Mwapasa to head the police, the only result is this type of uselessness. Poloce rapists of girls in Nsundwe dont get arrested but journalists taking photos get thrown in jail.

  2. nde mwati Very Important People? kodi aMalawi ndife otani….azungu akamabwera kuno amakhala very important why? nanga bwanji a MUTHALIKA amangojambulidwa chisawawa akapita ku USA or Britain? amangowajambula osawapempha and apolisisamawagwira, koma iwowa abwere kuno nkumawatcha VIP? VIP my foot

  3. Zoona achimwene, awa ndi alonda osaukadi. Ntchito chigwirirecho, kuima mumsewu, kunyowa ndi mvula kuti wopanda mano uja adutse koma conditins of service siinasinthebe mpaka lero. Nyumba ngati zimbudzi. Blindly suppoting the person who is responsible for their misery and agony!

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