Another journalist arrested in Zimbabwe

Police in Zimbabwe have detained a journalist who works for the country's leading Sunday newspaper, The Standard It is thought that Dumisani Sibanda , the paper's Bulawayo bureau chief, is being questioned over a story involving the police force. Sibanda is president of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, which has close ties with Britain's National Union of Journalists. Its deputy general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet , called for Sibanda's "immediate release" and spoke of the increasing pressure on Zimbabwe journalists. Earlier this month, freelance journalists, Nkosana Dlamini and Andreson Manyere were arrested in Harare and held overnight before being charged with "criminal nuisance." On the same day, another freelance journalist, Sydney Saize , was beaten up, robbed and injured in Mutare. And yesterday I reported that the Zimbabwean government has issued an arrest warrant for Wilf Mbanga who edits The Zimbabwean newspaper from exile in Britain. Sources: Newsday / AllAfrica.com / NUJ