Zimbabwe: Top lawyer nominated for freedom of expression award

Harrison Nkomo, a top Zimbabwean human rights lawyer known over the past decade for defending journalists in Zimbabwe, has been nominated for the Bindmans Law and Campaigning Award by Index on Censorship. Nkomo has in the past few years been arrested, intimidated and assaulted by state agents in Zimbabwe while trying to do his job. In March last year he was arrested for allegedly insulting President Robert Mugabe.