Two plainclothes policemen arrested Farai Mugano, a cameraman for Associated Press and Gillian Gotora, a journalist working for the American news agency and accused them of filming the Libyan embassy without authority.
Gotora was released and Mugano was detained at the Libyan embassy. Eye witnesses who witnessed the arrest said that an embassy official first gave chase to Mugano who was filming the embassy before the plainclothes policemen arrested the two journalists.
The police and the embassy officials accused the journalists of entering the Libyan territory without authority.
On Tuesday, the Zimbabwean government gave the Lybian ambassador, Taher El Magrahi, 72 hours to leave the country after he defected to the National Transitional Council last week.
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