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Journalists detained at Zanu-PF headquarters
MISA-Zimbabwe
June 24, 2013
Wendy Muperi
and Wonai Masvingise, journalists with privately-owned newspapers,
Daily News and NewsDay respectively, were on Friday, 21 June 2013
briefly detained by Zanu-PF security personnel while covering a
demonstration at the political party’s headquarters in the
capital, Harare.
Zimbabwe president,
Robert Mugabe, leads Zanu-PF.
Muperi said:
“Initially, all the five journalists covering the protest
(by Zanu-PF supporters) were detained, but the other three were
released after it was established that they were from the state
media."
She also said
during interrogations, they were told that the independent media
were championing the ‘regime change agenda’ and that
they deserved to be taught a lesson to desist from being traitors.
The reporters
were only rescued following the intervention of the Minister of
Media, Information and Publicity Webster Shamu.
MISA-Zimbabwe
position
The Zimbabwe
Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Zimbabwe)
commends minister Shamu’s intervention as a positive move
that helps in educating political party supporters that journalists
should be allowed to conduct their lawful professional duties without
hindrance.
Journalists
should be allowed to report news freely without fear of harassment
in order for them to inform, educate and entertain readers and viewers.
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