Hypocrisy:Police use Sky News Vehicle

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The Zimbabwe government's selective application of the law was exposed yesterday as it emerged that Police have been using a foreign registered vehicle seized from a Sky News crew to transport abducted civil society activists to and from court. It is illegal in

The vehicle, a red VW minibus, together with television broadcasting
equipment, laptops, computers, disks, and videotape was confiscated in
May last year in Bulawayo, and three Sky employees were detained.
Bernet Hasani Sono, Resemate Chauke and Simon Musimani were
subsequently each sentenced to six months in jail. In July 2008 a High
Court judge reduced the sentences to fines of Z$50 billion and they
were deported.

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