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New York, July 15, 2002—Andrew Meldrum, the Zimbabwe correspondent for the British Guardian newspaper, was today acquitted of "publishing false information" and "abusing journalistic privileges." However, Meldrum, the first journalist to be tried under Zimbabwe's repressive new media laws, was ordered to leave the country within 24 hours. Meldrum, a U.S. citizen who has been…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2001/10/colophon.gif