Zimbabwean Authorities Order US Journalist to Leave

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Zimbabwean Authorities Order US Journalist to Leave

The Ministry of Home Affairs of Zimbabwe on Monday gave a United States journalist 24 hours to leave the country or face prosecution.

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The Ministry of Home Affairs of Zimbabwe on Monday gave a United States journalist 24 hours to leave the country or face prosecution.

Andrew Meldrum, who writes for the London based The Guardian newspaper, was charged with writing falsehoods.

The allegations arose from a false article he lifted from the privately owned The Daily News, alleging that a Magunje woman had been killed by the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) supporters in front of her two children.

Meldrum was arrested in April this year alongside two reportersfrom The Daily News, Lloyd Mudiwa and Collen Chiwanza. Mudiwa and his editor, Geoff Nyarota, are due to face trial on the same charge while Chiwanza was released after it emerged that he was not the author of the story.

Meldrum's lawyer said that she was going to challenge the deportation in the High Court.

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