Journalist tried for breaking country's new media laws

HARARE, Zimbabwe - An American working for a British newspaper, the first journalist to be tried under tough new media laws some see as an attack on free speech in Zimbabwe, pleaded innocent Wednesday to charges he knowingly published false information on alleged political violence. U.S. citizen Andrew Meldrum, 50, a correspondent for the British newspaper The Guardian, faces two years in prison if found guilty by the Harare magistrate's court.