Freelance journalist Tendai Mandimika was on 19 September 2016 granted bail by the High Court in Harare on charges of public violence after spending more than three weeks in police custody. Mandimika was arrested in Harare on 24 August 2016 with 12 other co-accused ...
Media violations
Harassment of journalist and family following release
Bulawayo based freelance journalist, Crispen Ndlovu and his family, are allegedly being harassed by unidentified men following his release on 2 September 2016. Ndlovu was arrested on 31 August, 2016 while taking pictures of members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police...
Photojournalist Jemwa granted bail
2 September 2016 Freelance photojournalist James Jemwa was on 2 September 2016 granted $50 bail on charges of public violence by Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe. Jemwa who had been in custody at Chikurubi Maximum Prison for almost a week, was arrested on 26 August 2016...
Journalist rushed to hospital after assault
Detained freelance photojournalist Crispen Ndlovu who was reportedly severely assaulted by the police in Bulawayo was on the morning of 1 September 2016 rushed to hospital after complaining of severe headaches and impaired vision. His lawyer, Tineyi Mukweva of the...
ZBC news crew vehicle torched
A Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) news crew vehicle was torched in Harare’s central business district on 24 August 2016 during a march by MDC-T youths marking the launch of a campaign dubbed #MyZimbabwe. Earlier, freelance journalist Lucy Yasin was...
Police assault journalist
Freelance journalist Lucy Yasin was on 24 August 2016 assaulted by riot police in Harare while covering a march by MDC-T youths who were launching a campaign dubbed #MyZimbabwe. Yasin confirmed she had been struck once with a baton stick by a member of the riot...
Journalist files against police confiscation of camera
15 August 2016 High Court judge Justice Priscilla Chigumba on 15 August 2016 gave the Zimbabwe Republic Police(ZRP) up to this Friday to locate or make a sworn statement on the whereabouts of a camera belonging to freelance journalist Tony Manyangadze which was...
Police assault journalists
Members of the riot police on 3 August 2016 assaulted freelance journalists Lawrence Chimunhu, Christopher Mahove and Tendai Musiya as they covered demonstrations against the Zimbabwe government’s plans to introduce bond notes in the wake of the deteriorating...
Daily News journalist assaulted at Zanu PF headquarters
MISA-Zimbabwe Media Alert 27 July 2016 Daily News journalist Mugove Tafirenyika was on 27 July 2016 reportedly assaulted by Zanu PF supporters while covering a meeting at the party’s headquarters in Harare. Stanley Gama, editor of the Daily News...
Alert update: Freelance journalist freed
Freelance journalist James Jemwa is a free man after he was reportedly questioned by a soldier on why he was filming people queuing outside banks in Harare’s Central Business District on 27 June 2016.