Editors of Zambian newspaper arrested

Zambian police said on Tuesday they had arrested two senior editors of the country's largest independent newspaper that was shut last week over alleged unpaid tax.

The daily Post newspaper has rejected the tax-collecting agency's claims that it owes millions of dollars and says the shutdown is an attempt to silence it ahead of highly-contested August elections.

Editor-in-chief Fred M'membe and deputy managing editor Joseph Mwenda are yet to be charged, police officials and newspaper staff told AFP.

They were arrested early on Tuesday at the paper's offices in Lusaka.