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The
Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act: Five years
on
MISA-Zimbabwe
June 29, 2007
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MISA-Zimbabwe
is today pleased to commission its publication, AIPPA Five Years
On, a comprehensive report that chronicles the Access
to Information and Protection of Privacy Act's (AIPPA) onslaught
on media freedom, freedom of expression and the civil liberties
of the citizens in general.
AIPPA Five Years On, is an updated sequel to our September 2004
publication, The Acesss to Information and Protection of Privacy
Act: Two Years On, which was compiled by MISA-Zimbabwe in collaboration
with Article 19: London which takes its name and purpose from Article
19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which protects the
right to freedom of opinion and expression.
This report
captures AIPPA's trail of destruction since its enactment in 2002
up to the second half of the year 2007. It describes the legislation,
critiquing it and providing an overview on how it has been implemented
and the impact this has had on the free flow of information and
ideas in Zimbabwe. It also provides an overview of the context in
which AIPPA operates, including other repressive laws and measures,
which prevent independent perspectives from being voiced.
AIPPA Five Years
On captures and projects in greater detail how AIPPA and other complementary
restrictive legislations such as the Public
Order and Security Act (POSA), Broadcasting
Services Act (BSA), Criminal
Law (Codification and Reform Act), Constitutional
Amendment No 17 Act, among others, have trampled fundamental
rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly through
the continued unlawful, arrests, assaults, harassment, intimidation
and detention of journalists, human rights activists and leaders
of opposition political parties and other citizens deemed oppositional
by the government.
MISA-Zimbabwe
cherishes your continued support and assistance towards the advancement
of its shared mission and vision for the creation of a Zimbabwe
in which the media enjoys freedom of expression, independence from
political, economic and commercial interests, pluralism of views
and opinions as a principle means of nurturing democracy and human
rights as envisaged in the 1991 Windhoek Declaration on Promoting
Free and Independent Media.
Table
of contents
- Introduction
- AIPPA: Overview
and Critique
- The Overall
Context
- Other Repressive
Legislation
- The Public
Order and Security Act
- The Broadcasting
Services Act
- Criminal
Law (Codification and Reform) Act
-
General Laws Amendment Act
- Control
over the Public Media
- General
Harassment of the Media
- Content
Restrictions
- Newspaper
Registration: Closure of The Tribune, The Weekly Times and The
Daily News
- Update Chronicle
of the ANZ Legal Battle
- Analysis
of the ANZ Judgment
- Accreditation
of Journalists: The IJAZ Case
- Conclusion
- Annex: Table
of Violations
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