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(NEWZIMBABWE) BBC presenter said held in Zimbabwe

COMMENT - I have no sympathy for anyone who works for the BBC, who then travels to Zimbabwe and starts whining about being arrested because they didn't go for press accreditation first. If the BBC didn't employ shills for Anglo-American De Beers and neocolonialism, this wouldn't even be an issue, it certainly wasn't during the 1980s and 1990s.

BBC presenter said held in Zimbabwe
26/05/2012 00:00:00
by Staff Reporter

Petroc Trelawny, 42, faces charges of working without accreditation, the ZimVigil said in a statement from London.

Trelawny, a classical music presenter for BBC Radio 3 and the BBC 2 TV channel, was NOT working at the time of his arrest on Thursday night, according to the ZimVigil’s Rose Benton.

“Trelawny was taking part in the Bulawayo Music Festival which opened on May 23 and is due to end on May 27. He has been transferred to prison in Harare,” the statement added.

One of the organisers of the festival, who declined to be named, said he had kept in touch with Trelawny who was being "treated well".
Britain’s ambassador Deborah Bronnert to Zimbabwe has been to visit Trelawny in prison, according to sources.

New Zealand photo journalist Robin Hammond spent 25 days in a Zimbabwean jail after being arrested in Beitbridge last month.

Foreign journalists intending to work in Zimbabwe must seek permission from the Information Ministry prior to entering the country under tough media laws.

Labels: BBC

posted by MrK @ 4:20 PM