Leopold Munhende was arrested while taking photographs of the voter registration process at the Registrar General's Offices in Masvingo on 9 July 2013.
On Tuesday, 9 July 2013, police in Zimbabwe arrested Leopold Munhende, a journalist with The Mirror, in the southern town of Masvingo. Munhende was arrested while taking photographs of the voter registration process at the Registrar General’s Offices.
The arrest came at a time when Zimbabweans were jostling to register as voters before the lapse of the deadline that had been set on the same day.
The incident took place around 09:20hrs (CAT) and the journalist was taken to Masvingo Central Police station where he was charged with being a public nuisance in terms of the Miscellaneous Offences Act.
