Zambia editor jailed over porn trial

Lusaka, 06 June-(ANA)-A Zambian editor has been sent to prison for publishing comments by a lawyer during a pornography trial involving one of his paper's reporters.

Zambia Post's Fred M'membe was jailed for four months for contempt of court.

The Post employee was cleared of obscenity charges last November for sending government ministers pictures of a woman giving birth in a hospital car park during a nurses' strike.

President Rupiah Banda had described the photographs as pornographic.

Chansa Kabwela - a news editor at the Zambia Post - 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. (ANA)

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