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MISA-Zimbabwe statement on Zimbabwe Media Commission appointments Date:18/01/2010 MISA-Zimbabwe cautiously welcomes the final appointment by the President of commissioners that will serve on the statutory Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC)...
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Monday, 18 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Woza leaders wrongfully arrested — Supreme CourtDate:05/12/2010 Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) leaders Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu had their rights and fundamental freedoms violated, when they were arrested and detained for three weeks last year, the Supreme Court has ruled...
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Sunday, 5 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe / Freelance photojournalist further remanded in custodyDate:24/02/2009 Harare magistrate, Gloria Takundwa on 20 February 2009 further remanded detained freelance photojournalist Anderson Shadreck Manyere, to 6 March 2009, pending a trial date...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe / High Court denies Mukoko bailDate:06/02/2009 HARARE, Zimbabwe, February 6, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ - High Court judge Justice Chitakunye on 4 February 2009 dismissed the application for bail by detained Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko on the basis that she has not been formally charged and remanded by the magistrates' court...
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Friday, 6 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe / Journalists placed on EU sanctions list.Date:09/02/2009 Seven journalists and senior managers with the state media have been added to the European Union's (EU) targeted sanctions lists for whipping up a government orchestrated terror campaign before and during the June 2008 presidential runoff...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe / Magistrate defers ruling on Freelance photojournalist’s application for refusal of further remandDate:24/03/2009 A ruling on an application for refusal of further remand of detained freelance photojournalist, Anderson Shadreck Manyere was on 23 March 2009 deferred to 24 March 2009 by Harare Magistrate Gloria Takundwa...
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe / Ministry to hold consultative media conference on media law reforms in ZimbabweDate:27/03/2009 The Ministry of Information will from 28 March hold a two-day consultative conference to review the country's media policies and chart a new direction for the sector ahead of impending changes to statutes governing the profession...
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Friday, 27 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe / Public Condemns State Newspaper EditorDate:25/08/2009 Caesar Zvayi, Deputy Editor with “The Herald”, a state owned newspaper received heavy criticism from members of the public during a hearing on the state of public media convened by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Media, Information and Communication Technology on 22 August 2009...
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe arrests 46 over Egyptian-style protestsDate:22/02/2011 HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has arrested dozens of activists on charges of plotting protests against long-serving President Robert Mugabe similar to those that toppled the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia, police said on Monday...
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe detains reporter on criminal defamation chargesDate:19/11/2010 Reporter Nqobani Ndlovu remained in police custody today despite expectations that he would appear in court on criminal defamation charges, local journalists told CPJ...
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Friday, 19 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe Independent editors to stand trialDate:02/06/2009 On 28 May 2009, Harare Magistrate Catherine Chimanda ruled that Vincent Kahiya and Constantine Chimakure, editors of the Zimbabwe Independent, should appear for trial on 16 June...
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Tuesday, 2 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe journalists urge media law reformDate:12/05/2009 Zimbabwean journalists want the countrys new unity government to scrap tough media laws which critics say President Robert Mugabe has used to muzzle his opponents...
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe media defense lawyer arrestedDate:15/05/2009 Police in Zimbabwe should immediately release Alec Muchadehama, left, a prominent human rights lawyer targeted for his work on behalf of journalist Anderson Shadreck Manyere and others, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Friday, 15 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe media lawyer free a day after arrestDate:18/05/2009 We welcome good news from Zimbabwe today as authorities released Alec Muchadehama, one of many lawyers working in defense of persecuted journalists in that country...
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Monday, 18 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe minister calls for media law changesDate:13/05/2009 A former opposition politician who joined Zimbabwes government as deputy information minister is calling for changes in the laws under which two journalists were arrested this week...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe's Attorney-General makes efforts to develop ICT BillDate:03/10/2008 The Attorney-Generals Office in Zimbabwe is circulating a questionnaire as part of an effort to develop a national Information and Communication Technologies Bill, according to a MISA-Zimbabwe statement released on Wednesday...
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Friday, 3 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Arrest of Journalists Unfortunate Date:13/05/2009 The Deputy Minister of Information and Publicity Jameson Timba, has said the arrest of Zimbabwe Independent journalists is unfortunate as it comes at a time the country is working on reforming tough media laws...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Banned singer to attend the Global Forum on Freedom of Expression in Norway Date:15/05/2009 Zimbabwe protest musician Viomak has been invited to participate at the Global Forum on Freedom of Expression (GFFE) lasting from 1 June through to 6 June 2009 in Oslo...
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Friday, 15 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ZIMBABWE: British journalist arrestedDate:01/11/2008 A British journalist was last Thursday arrested at Harare International Airport on allegations of practising journalism without accreditation...
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Saturday, 1 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Foreign journalists welcome to do their job, says PMDate:28/05/2009 Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announced last week that foreign journalists are free to report from Zimbabwe, where many have previously been banned and others arrested and harassed, report the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and news reports...
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Thursday, 28 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Freelance photojournalist released on bailDate:21/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders today welcomed with relief the release on bail of freelance photojournalist Shadreck Anderson Manyere on 18 April but urged the authorities to drop all charges against him...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Furore Over Media Conference Date:24/04/2009 MEDIA organisations yesterday threatened to boycott an all-stakeholders' conference in Nyanga next month to review the country's media environment and policies saying its agenda was flawed and contrary to the principles of the global political agreement (GPA)...
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Friday, 24 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Government backs down on accreditation policy for journalistsDate:06/07/2009 In a statement released on 24 June 2009, the Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity said it had no intention of defying a provisional High Court order granted in favour of four freelance journalists but attributed delays in complying with the order in question to financial constraints...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: In encouraging move, leading international broadcasters allowed to return to ZimbabweDate:03/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders welcomes the Zimbabwean government’s decision to allow the British Broadcasting Corporation and the US television news channel CNN to work in Zimbabwe again...
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Monday, 3 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: In historic move for press freedom, government lifts ban on The Daily NewsDate:03/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders is delighted to learn that Zimbabwe’s leading privately-owned daily, which was always ready to criticise President Robert Mugabe, has received permission to resume publishing after being banned for six years...
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Monday, 3 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Journalist threatened following publication of articleDate:19/06/2009 Tatenda Chitagu, a journalist with The Mirror, Masvingo province's private paper, has taken legal action against the provincial chairperson who threatened her following the publication of an article in which she is alleged to have been involved in a criminal activity...
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Friday, 19 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ZIMBABWE: Journalists barred from attending opposition press conferenceDate:16/10/2008 Several journalists were on Thursday 9 October 2008 barred from entering the Prime Minister Designate, Morgan Tsvangirais Strathaven home in Harare for a press conference...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Journalists protest re-arrests and boycott govt media conference Date:07/05/2009 The re-arrests of political and human rights activists has sparked fury among civil society in Zimbabwe...
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Thursday, 7 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Journalists Spurn Govt Summit on Press FreedomDate:11/05/2009 Media organisations this week dug in their heels over boycotting a national media conference in the resort town of Kariba...
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Monday, 11 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Journalists Sue Government Over Accreditation Date:05/06/2009 Zimbabwean journalists have sued the government, including Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over the Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity's decision to accredit journalists wishing to cover the on-going COMESA Summit...
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Friday, 5 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ZIMBABWE: Laws used to Date:13/05/2009 A senior Zimbabwean government official has admitted that laws passed by the previous administration were still being used to criminalise journalism and needed to be changed, after two journalists more were arrested earlier this week...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Opposition leader and PM Designate, Tsvangirai speaks on plight of detained photojournalistDate:11/02/2009 Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai on 10 February 2009 assured Zimbabweans of intense efforts underway to release by 11 February 2009 detained photojournalist Shadreck Manyere and human rights activist Jestina Mukoko detained together with other pro-Movement for Democratic Change activists...
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Wednesday, 11 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Persecution of Zinasu Leadership an Attack on Academic Freedom Synopsis Too Long
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Monday, 23 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Persecution of Zinasu Leadership an Attack on Academic Freedom Synopsis Too Long
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Monday, 23 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Persecution of Zinasu Leadership an Attack on Academic Freedom Synopsis Too Long
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Monday, 23 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Persecution of Zinasu Leadership an Attack on Academic Freedom Synopsis Too Long
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Monday, 23 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Persecution of Zinasu Leadership an Attack on Academic Freedom Synopsis Too Long
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Monday, 23 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Police launch manhunt for freelance photojournalistDate:27/04/2009 On 24 April 2009, Zimbabwe's Police launched a search for freelance journalist; Anderson Shadreck Manyere who was recently released on bail from Chikurubi Maximum Prison together with co-accused Movement for Democratic Change activist Gandhi Mudzingwa and Kisimusi Dhlamini...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ZIMBABWE: Reporting in a 'culture of fear'Date:02/02/2009 Freelance journalist Frank Chikowore visited CPJ this week after receiving the Tully Center Free Speech Award at Syracuse University...
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Monday, 2 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Rule of law has yet to be restored, says TsvangiraiDate:03/06/2009 Attempts to restore the rule of law and democratic rights in Zimbabwe have failed thus far, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has admitted...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Security officials defy High Court order allowing journalists to cover summitDate:12/06/2009 Security details and secretariat personnel at the ongoing Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Heads of State and Government summit in Victoria Falls barred four freelance journalists from covering the event despite a High Court order granting them permission to do so without producing accreditation cards issued by the defunct Media and Information Commission (MIC)...
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Friday, 12 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: State concedes Mukoko's detention was illegalDate:07/07/2009 Former news reader with the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, Jestina Mukoko, on 25 June 2009 appeared before the full bench of the Supreme Court sitting as a Constitutional Court challenging the infringement of her constitutional rights to liberty, full protection of the law and right to freedom from torture...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Three journalists arrested, held overnight then freed on bailDate:14/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns a police raid on the Harare headquarters of the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper on 9 May and the arrests of its director, editor and news editor two days later...
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Thursday, 14 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Timba calls for repeal of media lawsDate:05/05/2009 Media, Information and Publicity Deputy Minister Jameson Timba has criticised Zimbabwean media laws for limiting press freedom and freedom of expression...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ZIMBABWE: Top lawyer nominated for freedom of expression awardDate:20/03/2009 HARRISON Nkomo, a top Zimbabwean human rights lawyer known over the past decade for defending journalists in Zimbabwe, has been nominated for the Bindmans Law and Campaigning Award by Index on Censorship...
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Friday, 20 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Zim lifts reporting restrictions on BBC Date:05/08/2009 The Zimbabwean government has lifted a ban on the BBC reporting freely from the former British colony, ending restrictions in place for eight years, the broadcaster said Thursday...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ZIMBABWE: Zim to relax media lawsDate:09/04/2009 Zimbabwes new power-sharing government will relax the countrys harsh media laws and improve prison conditions as part of reforms to be implemented within 100 days, a minister told state media Monday...
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's glimmer of hope for press freedomDate:06/08/2009 Some Zimbabwean journalists say 2003 was the most repressive year for independent journalists...
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Thursday, 6 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Title Too LongDate:13/10/2009 The case involved a Constitutional challenge to several provisions of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) of 2002, which governs accreditation of journalists in Zimbabwe...
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Chavunduka and Choto v Minister of Home Affairs [200]Date:28/04/2011 Zimbabwe Supreme Court…
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Thursday, 28 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
ZimbabweDate:31/01/2011 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedoms of expression…
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Monday, 31 January 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Zimbabwe Facebook subversion trial collapseDate: 21 September 2011 "Zimbabwe Facebook subversion trial collapses The case against Zimbabwean Vikas Mavhudzi, accused of subversion because of an alleged post on the social media site Facebook, has collapsed...
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011Last Modified:
Monday, 26 September 2011
MISA-Zimbabwe position on inclusion of media freedomDate: 11 Ferbruary 2012 "MISA-Zimbabwe welcomes the inclusion of media freedom and the right to access to information as captured in the first constitutional draft published in The Herald on 9 February 2012...
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Saturday, 11 February 2012Last Modified:
Monday, 13 February 2012
Free media a prerequisite to developmentDate: 27 February 2012 "The 7th regional African Caribbean and Pacific-European Union (ACP-EU) Joint Parliamentary Assembly has affirmed free media as a prerequisite to development and critical...
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Monday, 27 February 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 28 February 2012