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Commonwealth Journalists protest legislation just passed by the Zimbabwe Parliament
Commonwealth Press Union
January 15, 2002

A delegation from the Commonwealth Press Union (CPU), the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA), and the Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) has met the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Rt Hon Don McKinnon, to express their concern about the legislation just passed by the Zimbabwe Parliament.

They said that these measures were anti-democratic and if fully implemented could prevent a free press from functioning in Zimbabwe and destroy any process of good governance in that country. They urged the Secretary-General to ensure that a Commonwealth Observer Group goes to Zimbabwe for the forthcoming Presidential election and welcomed his assurance that he was doing all in his power to achieve this.

They noted that if these elections were not perceived, by the international community, to have been conducted freely and fairly with an independent media operating as part of that process, then the Commonwealth would have little choice but to suspend Zimbabwe from its councils.

For further details please contact:

Commonwealth Press Union
17 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1AA
Tel +44 20 7583 7733
Fax +44 20 7583 6868
Email cpu@cpu.org.uk
Website: www.cpu.org.uk

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