BANNED/CENSORED/BARRED
Victim/Concern Party

Issue

Date

March
Mutare-based private media Barred by Manicaland Zanu PF provincial chairman, 24
journalists
Mike Madiro, from covering the party’s meeting in the 2018
eastern border town of Mutare.
Zimbabwe National Army

Soldiers deployed in Harare’s central business district 1
August
ordered journalists covering riotous demonstrations 2018
over delays in releasing presidential elections to
switch off their video recording equipment.

Local and foreign journalists

August
The police temporarily barred the media from covering 3
an MDC-Alliance press conference at Bronte Hotel in 2018
Harare.

Violet
Gonda,
journalist

freelance Temporarily denied Zimbabwean passport by September
Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede because she was 2018
on a “stop list”.

Private media journalists

Briefly barred from covering proceedings of the 16 October
Commission of Inquiry following the 1 August 2018 2018
killings of civilians by the army during demonstrations
in Harare.

Godfrey Mutimba, freelance Ordered to delete footage of a police crackdown on 17 October
journalist
vendors in the southern town of Masvingo. The police 2018
also confiscated his press accreditation card.

DETAINED
Victim/Concerned Party

Issue

Date

Tinotenda
Samukange, Detained for close to three hours by soldiers deployed 3 August 2018
journalist with NewsDay.
in Harare’s high density suburb of Kuwadzana. The
soldiers ordered him not
Columbus
Mavhunga, Police detained Mavhunga for almost three hours after 16 September
freelance journalist
he refused to delete footage he had recorded of a police 2018
crackdown
against vendors in Harare’s central
business district. Police drove around with him in police
truck as they continued with their operation.
Gilbert
Nyambabvu, Detained briefly after police noticed him taking pictures 19 September
2018
NewZimbabwe editor and of their raid against vendors in Harare.
colleague Idah Mhetu
Pauline Chateuka and Briefly detained by the police while filming police 21 September
reporter with Community officers as they arrested vendors around Copacabana 2018

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