Lusaka, 05 Aug-(ANA)-The news editor of Zambia's largest independent newspaper has gone on trial accused of distributing obscene images.
Chansa Kabwela sent two photographs of a woman giving birth without medical help to the country's vice-president, health minister and rights groups.
She says she was highlighting issues in the healthcare system and calling for an end to a nurses' strike.
But President Rupiah Banda called the pictures pornographic and demanded a police investigation.
The Post's news editor Ms Kabwela did not publish the controversial photographs, but sent copies to a number of prominent people and women's rights groups, along with a letter calling for the strike to be brought to an end.
The defence is arguing that the case rests on the definition of obscenity and so witnesses should have to describe what counts as obscene and arousing. (ANA)
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