connection with the incident.
Panashe Makufa, journalist Makufa was assaulted by a plainclothes police officer 18
October
with online publication Mail from the law and order section while taking pictures of 2018
and Telegraph.
the police as they arrested illegal foreign currency
dealers at the Road Port regional bus terminus in
Harare
Hubert Sithole and
Panashe Makufa,
journalists with online
publication Mail and
Telegraph

Assaulted by the police who also confiscated their 11 December
equipment while covering intra-party clashes among 2018
MDC Alliance supporters in a car park outside Harare
Central Police Station.

THREATENED/HARRASSED
Victim/Concerned party

Issue

Date

TellZim and The Mirror Zanu PF political commissar Omega Hungwe warned 21 January
based in the southern town journalists in the southern town against reporting her 2018
of Masvingo
remarks on how her party would win the 2018
elections.
TellZim journalists

Threatened by MDC-T councillors Murangamwa 21
Chanyau and Peter Chigaba following publication of a 2018
story on 15 March 2018 detailing how the party in
Masvingo was allegedly planning to replace all sitting
councillors with new ones.

March

Miriam Magwaya, reporter Threatened and harassed by a Zanu PF youth while 26 June 2018
with The Mirror.
travelling from the burial of Chief Hama in Zimbabwe’s
Chirumanzi district.
Joseph Cotteril, Southern A soldier wielding an AK assault rifle threatened him 1
August
Africa correspondent with while covering riotous demonstrations in Harare.
2018
the Financial Times
Philemon
Jambaya, Threatened by Zanu PF supporters and councillors 4 September
freelance journalist
against taking pictures of protests that broke out during 2018
the Chitungwiza municipality mayoral elections.
Tatenda Chitagu, NewsDay MDC Alliance councillor threatened and snatched 5 September
Chitagu’s cellphone as he filmed protests during 2018
journalist
mayoral elections in the southern town of Masvingo.
Journalist Zenzele Ndebele

Questioned by the police about his documentary on the 17 September
early 1980s army atrocities in the Midlands and 2018
Matabeleland regions.

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