Lusaka - A leading Zambian journalist who was acquitted Monday of distributing "obscene material" over photographs she circulated of a woman giving birth during a medical strike claimed the ruling as a victory for media freedom. Chansa Kabwela, 29, a news editor at Zambia's privately owned The Post newspaper group, was throw in the dock for circulating photographs taken by the woman's husband of her giving birth on the ground outside Lusaka's University Teaching Hospital.
A judge in Lusaka magistrate's court ruled the graphic photographs, which Kabwela circulated in an attempt to highlight the plight of the woman, were unlikely to corrupt public morals.
"I'm happy that the court has vindicated me. This is a victory for the media," Kabwela, who was flanked by several editors from her newspaper, told the German Press Agency
