HARARE, Zimbabwe — A lawyer said Monday that an American reporter and one from Briton who were detained last week on charges of reporting illegally on the election had been released on bail of 300 million Zimbabwean dollarsabout $6 at the black-market rate.
Lawyer Harrison Nkomo said the two journalists were not allowed to leave the country and were expected to appear in court Thursday, when he planned to argue they should not be tried because they did not commit a crime. The American, New York Times correspondent Barry Bearak, was moved to a clinic after injuring his back in a fall in his cell, Nkomo said.
Two South African journalists similarly charged were granted bail Monday but were not released because the ruling came too late for bail payments to be made, Nkomo said.
