Zimbabwe minister calls for media law changes

'A former opposition politician who joined Zimbabwe's government as deputy information minister is calling for changes in the laws under which two journalists were arrested this week. "It is unfortunate that we still have laws in our country that infringe on media freedom and freedom of expression, " Jameson Timba told The Associated Press Tuesday, a day after the editor and the news editor of the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper were arrested and charged with publishing falsehoods in an article about the abduction of opposition and human rights activists.'

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