Photojournalists accuse police harassment

Mmegi is informed that Sir Seretse Khama Airport Police station commander King Tshebo arrested two photojournalists and later released them after they promised to erase the photos they had taken of him.

Relating the story to Mmegi, Koone Boikaego, a photojournalist with Echo newspaper said they were busy shooting pictures of the beauty queen's arrival and "then someone accidentally pushed him. He must have thought it was me because when he looked about and saw me, he pushed me hard. In the process, I asked a fellow photojournalist to shoot pictures of the police boss as he pushed me. The station commander was furious and ordered his juniors to arrest us and take us to the police charge office. At the office he told us we are not supposed to take pictures of him as this is in violation of his privacy rights, but he was on duty at the airport, a very public space", he said.