6.0 Media alerts and communiques in the 3rd quarter 2016 6.1.1 8th July, 2016 Press freedom and freedom of expression alert Early Warning Notification System officially unveiled MISA Zambia Access to Information Ambassador, Reverend Suzanne Matale, has officially announced the Early Warning Notification System (EWNS) which is a systematic way of collecting information in good time to avert the increasing violations against media houses and journalists especially in the build up to the August 11 polls and thereafter. The system template aims to gather information every time there is a violation or threat of violation against a media house or journalist by collecting specific information such as the Reporting Entity, Details of the Person, Reporting Date, Nature of Incident and the basic details of the incident. As part of the system, a WhatsApp and email group for all media houses and one dedicated mobile hotline, 0979 580451, have been put in place to capture all data sent out on a 24/7 basis. 6.1.2 10th July, 2016 (The Post Newspaper) Media freedom violation alert Detained Post Photo Journalist David Kashiki was on Friday, 8th July 2016 arrested by Police at the UPND Secretariat as he was taking pictures of suspected of them at the UPND secretariat where cadres were protesting the cancellation of the opposition rallies. Kashiki, who arrived at the scene in time for the protest procession which started from Lusaka’s Chawama compound, was arrested after attempting to take photographs of police who were brutalising UPND cadres at their secretariat in Fairview. He, together with several UPND cadres was held at Central Police without charge 6.1.3 4th August 2016, (MISA Zambia Facebook) Media freedom violation alert Assaulted New Vision Newspaper's Elijah Mumba was attacked by UPND cadre in Chainda on 3rd August 2016 as he went about gathering news. The cadre reportedly confronted Elijah Mumba, a New Vision newspaper reporter at whom he hurled insults and physically attacked with a brick leading to a deep wound on Mumba's head which later received 16 stitches. 24