=LPEDEZH 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. &RPPXQLTXp 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. $OHUW 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. 6R7KLVLV'HPRFUDF\" $OHUW 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. $OHUW 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.