3 October 2003

Alert

High Court dismisses "The Daily News" case


Incident details

newspaper(s)

seized
(MISA/IFEX) - On 1 October 2003, High Court Judge Tendai Uchena ordered the police to continue holding equipment they had confiscated from "The Daily News". The judgement followed a 17 September "The Daily News" appeal to have its seized equipment returned.

Judge Uchena did not give any reasons as to why the the 160 computers can not be released by the police. Under the law, the equipment could eventually be forfeited to the state.



Source:

Media Institute of Southern Africa
21 Johann Albrecht Street
Private Bag 13386
Windhoek
Namibia
director (@) misa.org
Phone: +264 61 232975
Fax: +264 61 248016
 

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Updates to this story

Police defy order to vacate ANZ's premises, government appeals to Supreme Court to keep newspaper closed 16 January 2004

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