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.

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