President Mugabe wants to see your press card – or else.

Harare – The lawyer for two foreign journalists arrested while covering Zimbabwe’s elections made an urgent application on Sunday for the release of the two men on the third day of their detention.Barry Bearak, a correspondent for the New York Times and Stephen Bevan, a freelance journalist with the Sunday Telegraph, were arrested on Thursday during a police raid on a tourist lodge in Harare, in an attempted crackdown on the scores of foreign journalists covering the elections without accreditation.
President Robert Mugabe’s media authorities granted accreditation to only a handful of foreign journalists from what they called “friendly countries”.
Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa filed papers in the High Court in Harare after being told by police that the pair now faced “new charges” of “illegally observing elections without accreditation.”