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 ...
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Journalists meet police chiefs over harassment
MISA Zimbabwe led a delegation of journalists and representatives of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists and Media Alliance of Zimbabwe to meet with police chiefs in Harare.
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...
MISA requests meeting with police commissioner-general
MISA-Zimbabwe leaders Cris Chinaka and Kelvin Jakachira on 12 September 2016 wrote a letter to Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri requesting for a meeting to discuss the “deepening conflict” between members of the police and media practitioners. Chinaka and...
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 admitted for head injuries
Photojournalist Crispen Ndlovu who was reportedly severely assaulted by the police on 31 August 2016 has been admitted at a private hospital in Zimbabwe’s second largest city of Bulawayo. His lawyer Tineyi Mukweva of Abameli Human Rights Lawyers in collaboration...
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...