Where are the fighters for press freedom now?
The arrest of Sunday Mirror journalist Simon Wright in South Africa should have press freedom advocates in South Africa and elsewhere hopping up and down, demanding his release and the withdrawal of charges against him.
We all seem to have lost our tongues because of the World Cup and our patriotic fever. But from any angle I look at this, I can only see Wright's arrest flowing from normal journalist work.
National police commissioner Bheki Cele seems to suggest that Wright was involved in British fan Pavlos Joseph gaining entry to the English team's dressing room after a game in Cape Town. The Sunday Mirror, for which Wright works, deny this and say he was simply involved in a pursing a legitimate story.
Let us look at all of the theoretical scenarios here: