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sented at a MISA-Zimbabwe World
Press Freedom Day dinner which also
coincided with the Justice John Oliver
Manyarara Memorial Lecture held at Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel on 4 May 2012
in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest
city.

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Date: May 15, 2012
Person/ institution: KISS FM
Violation/ issue: Legislation
KISS FM representatives on 10 May 2012
bemoaned the adjudication process employed by the Broadcasting Authority
of Zimbabwe (BAZ) in the awarding of
commercial radio broadcasting licences.
The representatives were giving oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio
Committee on Media, Information and
Communication Technology during a
committee meeting held at Parliament
Building in Harare.

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Date: May 24, 2012
Person/ institution: Newsday and
Daily News
Violation/ issue: Censored
Vendors selling copies of the privatelyowned Newsday and Daily News newspapers in Gokwe in the Midlands Province were on 22 May 2012 ordered by a
lone solider to surrender their newspapers at a local police post in the Midlands
provincial town centre. According to a
report carried by Newsday in its edition
of 23 May 2012, the solider arrived at a
local sports bar in the morning and ordered the vendors not to sell the papers.



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Date: June 4, 2012
Person/ institution: Petros Trelawny
Violation/ issue: Detained
A British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC) music presenter Petros Trelawny
who was arrested on 26 May 2012 for
working in Zimbabwe without accreditation in terms of the repressive Access
to Information and Protection of Privacy
Act (AIPPA) was freed of all charges and
flew out of the country on 1 June 2012.
Trelawny was arrested in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city, during the
Bulawayo Music Festival. After being released on 30 May 2012, he then faced
new charges on allegations of breaching
Zimbabwe’s immigration laws. However,
the charges were dropped on 31 May
2012 and his passport returned to him.
Trelawny was acting as a compère during
the festival and was in Bulawayo in his
personal capacity as opposed to being on
assignment for the BBC.

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Date: July 17, 2012
Person/ institution: Aaron Ufumeli
Violation/ issue: Detained
Photojournalist Aaron Ufumeli was
on 17 July 2012 arrested while covering a demonstration organised by the
women’s movement at the Africa Unity
Square in Harare. Ufumeli who works
for the privately-owned NewsDay, was
arrested around 9:30am (GMT+2) by an
unidentified police officer while taking
pictures of what appeared to be a confrontation between a police officer and
one of the demonstrators.

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