News:The Standard responds to police statement on live ammunition story. Maintains police used live ammunition to end protests

<vote /> The Standard newspaper says it stands by its story published on Sunday that police opened fire using live ammunition to put an end to National Electoral Reform Agenda-organised protests in Harare last Saturday.

The Standard acting editor Tangai Chipangura yesterday said,

We wish to assure our readers and stakeholders that we verified the facts contained in our story and that our reporters were there on the ground collecting and recording information. As such, we stand by our story, that the police opened fired into the air to disperse protesters. Claims by the police that we had ‘openly turned political and (thrown) all ethical tenets of journalism through the window in order to achieve one’s political agenda’ are themselves malicious and meant to discredit the newspaper without investigating the reports and, therefore, without facts. The Standard does not publish stories based on hearsay or speculation and we wish to restate that, indeed, the police did engage in running battles with protesters, which resulted in several arrests and the opening of gunfire.

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