Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Botswana Journalists Have A Case To Answer, says Courts.

The courts have ruled that the two Botswana Television (BTV) journalists, Beauty Mokoba and Koketso Seofela, have a case to answer for allegedly violating the country's media and immigration laws.
The court sitting in Plumtree near Botswana today ruled that the two were not immune to prosecution and had violated AIPPA by practicing without being accredited. They also face charged under the Immigration Act for allegedly entering the country illegally. m said it will rule on the matter on September 5.
The journalists, who entered Zimbabwe to follow up a story on the outbreak of the foot-and-mouth cattle disease along the two countries' frontier, face up to two years in jail if found guilty of working without accreditation.

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