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Victim
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Charge
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Date
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Thabo Kunene BBC correspondent1
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Arrested without charge in Lupane
released after one hour
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29 January 2002
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Rhodah Mashavane, Foster Dongozi
(Daily News) and Cornelius Nduna (The Standard)
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Arrested and charged under POSA
for participating in a demonstration, released after four
hours
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30 January 2002
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Basildon Peta
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Arrested and charged under POSA
for allegedly organizing a demonstration
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4 February 2002
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Moses Oguti: Botswana Journalist
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Arrested under the Immigration
Act for allegedly having illegally crossed into Zimbabwe released
on 25 April 2002
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17 February 2002
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Newton Spicer (Spicer Productions)
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Arrested and detained while covering
an opposition demonstration. Released after five hours. Video
camera confiscated but returned on 25 February.
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19 February 2002
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Edwina Spicer and Jackie Cahi
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Charged under the Protected Areas
Act for allegedly filming the state house. Camera taken &
the two are released after 5 hours. Arrested while filming
the MDC leader who had been summoned to the police station
which is near the state house
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18 February 2002
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Peta Thornycroft correspondent
for British paper
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Arrested under AIPPA and POSA in
Chimanimani while on course of duty. Released on 31 March
2002.
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27 March 2002
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Geoff Nyarota
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Arrested and charged under AIPPA
for publishing a story that the Registrar General misrepresented
figures on the Presidential election
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15 April 2002
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Dumisani Muleya: Chief Reporter
Zimbabwe Independent
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Arrested and charged under AIPPA
and Criminal defamation for allegedly lying that the first
lady was involved in a bid to take over a company with his
brother
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15 April 2002 (Criminal defamation)
and 17 April (AIPPA)
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Iden Wetherell Editor Zimbabwe
Independent
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Charged under AIPPA (See Muleya’s
first lady story)
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17 April 2002
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Geoff Nyarota and Lloyd Mudiwa,
Collin Chiwanza (Daily News)
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Arrested and charged under AIPPA
for writing that an opposition member had been beheaded by
ruling party supporters. The journalists were released on
bail on 2 May. The story was proved to be false and the paper
apologized. Matter referred to the Supreme Court on 24 July.
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30 April 2002
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Andrew Meldrum correspondent for
a British paper
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Arrested and charged under AIPPA.
(See Mudiwa and Chiwanza story). , Magistrate finds Meldrum
innocent on 15 July
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1 May 2002
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Pius Wakatama (Daily News columnists)
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Charged under AIPPA for commenting
on the alleged incompetence of the Registrar General’s office
concerning the vote counting
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6 May 2002
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Assel Gwekwerere and Aaron Ufumeli
(Daily News)
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Arrested while taking photographs
of an arrested criminal. Police thought the two were part
of a gang they had waylaid in an undercover operation. Released
after hours of interrogation. Film confiscated
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7 May 2002
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Brian Mangwende (Daily News)
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Arrested for allegedly writing
a false story that teachers were being harassed. Released
after two hours. No charges were preferred.
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10 May 2002
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Bornwell Chakodza and Farai Mutsaka
(The Standard)
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Arrested and charged under AIPPA
for writing that the police have bought anti riot gear. Released
on bail on 17 May.
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15 May 2002
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Bornwell Chakaodza and Fungayi
Kanyuchi (The Standard)
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Arrested and charged under AIPPA
for writing that the police were involved in "sex for
freedom deals" with sex workers.
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15 May released on bail 17 May
2002
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Bornwell Chakaodza Editor and Fungayi
Kanyuchi (Entertainment Editor) The Standard
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Arrested and charged under the
Censorship and entertainment Controls Act for publishing picture
captions of semi naked alleged sex workers accompanied by
a story on the police’s "sex for freedom deals"
with sex workers.
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21 May 2002
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Bornwell Chakaodza and Farai Mutsaka
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Arrested and Charged under AIPPA
for writing that the Department of Information is mooting
editorial changes at the state owned media
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23 May 2002
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Bornwell Chakaodza and Fungayi
Kanyuchi
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Arrested and charged under AIPPA
for writing a story that the police were unfairly arresting
private media journalists. The story was titled "The
Private Media’s burden" and was partly a narration of
Kanyuchi’s experiences in police cells
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28 May 2002
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Iden Wetherell Editor (Zimbabwe
Independent)
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Charged under the Censorship Act
for publishing a picture of semi naked Amazonian man playing
football in his traditional attire
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30 May 2002
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Guthrie Munyukwi (Reporter), Urgurnia
Mauluka (Photographer) and Shadreck Mukwecheni (Driver) Daily
News
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Arrested, beaten and charged under
POSA while covering a pro constitutional reform demonstration
in Harare released 17 June 2002
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16 June 2002
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Chris Gande (Daily News) Bulawayo
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Arrested and charged under AIPPA
for allegedly publishing falsehoods about the vice president
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4 July 2002
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Stanley Karombo (Freelance)
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Harassed and arrested for five
hours while covering the Kadoma mayoral elections.
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25 July
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Tawanda Majoni (The Daily Mirror)
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Arrested and Charged under AIPPA
and the Police Act for having written falsehoods on the health
of the Police Chief and for having resigned from the police
unprocedurally. Detained for two days. Sentenced to 3 months
in prison but is out of custody pending the hearing on his
appeal
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12 September 2002
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Henry Makiwa (Reporter) Aaron Ufumeli
(Photographer) Trust Maswela (Driver) Daily News
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Arrested and Detained by the police
for one and a half hours whilst covering a demonstration by
students in Harare. Film confiscated. Released without charge
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21 October 2002
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Henry Makiwa, Gally Kambeu (Photographer)
and Trust Maswela, Daily News
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Arrested and detained for four
hours while covering an anti rape demonstration in Harare.
No charges were preferred.
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19 November 2002
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