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Zambia police question journalists over presidency graft story

Lusaka: Zambian police said they had questioned two journalists at a newspaper that published a story illegally drawn from classified documents about a graft investigation of a presidential aide, who was subsequently cleared.

The Post Newspaper, which employs the journalists, said the affair demonstrated the government could not tolerate a free press.

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