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Editors added to EU sanctions list
MISA-Zimbabwe
July 28, 2008

Munyaradzi Huni and Caesar Zvayi editors with the state-controlled Zimpapers have been slapped with European Union (EU) targeted sanctions which has seen a number of senior ZANU PF and government officials being issued with travel bans and the freeze of their assets.

Huni is the political editor with The Sunday Mail while Zvayi was formerly employed in a similar capacity with The Herald, Zimpapers flagship national daily. The EU accuses the two journalists of reportedly "whipping up" the terror campaign before and during the 27 June 2008 presidential election run-off resulting in their being added to the 168 individuals slapped with similar sanctions.

The decision of the EU Council to increase the list of individuals in the Zimbabwe to 168 is aimed at ensuring that they will not be allowed to travel to or through Europe and their bank accounts held in European institutions will be frozen.

MISA-Zimbabwe Chairperson Loughty Dube said he was ignorant of the specific reasons for the EU to proceed in that manner adding that he could therefore not comment much on the matter but nevertheless urged journalists to bound by the ethics and codes of the profession.

Mathew Takaona, the president of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) said it was "unfortunate precedent" for journalists to be put under sanctions adding that the two were not members of the union and was therefore not in a position to comment further on the issue.

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