Victim

Charge

Date

Banned/Deported/ Denied work permit

Simon Briggs, Daily Telegraph (Britain) sports reporter

Barred from entering Zimbabwe and bundled into a plane back to South Africa. Briggs was set to cover a world cup cricket match

19 February 2003

The Daily News and Parliament of Zimbabwe

Reporters barred from covering parliament. Parliament officials said that the journalists are not accredited hence the ban.

26 February 2003

Andrew Meldrum: Guardian correspondent

Harassed by state security agents who visited his home in the middle of the night, goes into hiding. Kidnapped by the police and immigration officers and thrown out of Zimbabwe on 16 May

7 and 16 May 2003

Dolores Cortes Meldrum, wife of deported Guardian correspondent Andrew Meldrum

Flees Zimbabwe after being ordered to report to the immigration department

12 June 2003

Mopani Junction Radio programme on HIV-AIDS awareness

Banned by the ZBC. No reasons given.

27 July 2003

The Daily News

Banned by the government appointed Media and Information Commission and police after a Supreme Court judgment that the paper was operating illegally.

Supreme Court judgement 11 September, paper banned on 12 September. Police move into newsrooms and offices, 16 September equipment seized, executives and journalists arrested and charged for operating without registration and accreditation. MIC denies the ANZ a license.