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Peta Thornycroft
Fifty-seven-year-old Peta Thornycroft, who is a Zimbabwean national, was detained and charged yesterday by Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO). Her son, Adrian, speaking from Cape Town told the national SABC radio here that he had spoken to his mother before she was arrested. ``I have spoken to her lawyer after she was arrested and he tells me that she has been arrested and charged with fomenting violence and spreading false statements,'' he said. Ms. Thornycroft, who works as a correspondent for Britain's `Daily Telegraph', faces the prospect of being imprisoned for two years under Zimbabwe's new laws restricting the freedom of the Press. Under that law, criticism of the President is a criminal offence; public gatherings of more than three persons have to be authorised by police and the authorities have sweeping powers of detention without trial. — PTI
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