| Victim/
Concerned Party |
Violation/
Event/issue
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Date
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Status
of matter
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SW Radio Africa
|
The station which broadcasts from London was forced
to beam its last short-wave broadcast due to repeated jamming
of its transmission signal by the Zimbabwean government |
2
June 2005
|
The station that is manned by Zimbabweans exiled
in the UK is now broadcasting on medium wave which does not
cover the whole of Zimbabwe.
|
|
Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Bill
|
President Robert Mugabe signed the Bill into law
after it was passed by Parliament towards the end of last
year
|
The Bill was gazetted on 2 June 2005
|
Zimbabwean journalists now risk spending 20
years imprisonment if convicted for publication or communication
of falsehoods which may incite public disorder or public violence.
|
|
Daily
News journalists, Margaret Chinowaita, Taka Mparutsa, Conway
Tutani, Darlington Majonga, Fanwell Jongwe, Pedzisayi Ruhanya,
Macdonald Dzirutwe, and Cornelia Mabasa.
|
The
eight journalists who worked for the banned Daily News were
served with summonses to appear in court for practicing journalism
without accreditation in terms of the Access to Information
and Protection of Privacy Act.
|
13
June 2005
|
The
journalists are expected to appear in court on 12 October
2005.
|
|
Willie Mponda, Editor of The Sun, a community Newspapers
in Gweru.
|
Charged
with contravening Section 15 (1) (c) Chapter 11:17 of the
Public Order and Security Act (POSA).
This followed the publication of a story in The Sun
on 10 June 2005 that a Gweru woman had committed suicide after
her two telephone shops were destroyed under the controversial
clean-up campaign, code named, Operation Restore Order.
|
16
June 2005
|
He was remanded out of custody on $250 000 bail to
28 July 2005
|
|
DStv
Subscribers
|
DStv
subscribers in Bulawayo were asked by the police as to the
source of the foreign currency they use to pay their monthly
subscriptions.
|
17
June 2005
|
The
police said they were justified to investigate cases where
they suspect crimes were being committed.
|
|
Associated
Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), publishers of the banned Daily
News and Daily News on Sunday.
|
The ANZ said it had filed its application to
be registered with the Media and Information Commission (MIC)
in terms of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy
Act (AIPPA).
|
23
June 2005
|
ANZ
is still awaiting the determination of the application it
submitted to the MIC.
The
MIC has since deliberated on the ANZ’s submissions and is still
to decide on the matter. |
