198:. In May 2008, he was arrested in the paper's office for having printed an article in April by Arthur Mutambara, leader of an MDC faction and charged with publishing "false statements prejudicial to the state". Later that year, Maruziva stated that Zimbabwe still had freedom of expression; the problem was that "There is no freedom after expression".
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