MEDIA VIOLATIONS 2020 TABLE
Assaulted / Charged
Victim /Concerned Party

Issue

Date

Zimbabwe Broadcasting

Maranelli was assaulted by MDC-Alliance

10 February 2020

Corporation (ZBC)

security details in Gwanda, Matabeleland South

cameraperson, Providence

Province, moments after party leader Nelson

Maranelli.

Chamisa had addressed a meeting.

Freelance journalist Panashe

Makufa was assaulted by the police in the

Makufa.

Harare suburb of Kuwadzana while undertaking

04 April 2020

his professional duties.
Freelance journalist Terence

Sipuma was reportedly assaulted by members

Sipuma.

of the police and the army at the Kuwadzana

11 April 2020

roundabout in Harare while on his way to
Chegutu to report on Zimbabwe’s 21-day
COVID-19 lockdown.
MunasheChokodza and Leopold

Chokodza and Munhende who were returning

Munhende 263Chat and

home from work, were assaulted with military

NewZimbabwe.com journalists,

whips by soldiers who were dispersing people at

respectively.

the Warren Park shopping centre in Harare,

24 June 2020

despite producing their journalism accreditation
cards.
Freelance journalist Tapiwa

Zivirawas reportedly assaulted by the police and

Zivira

members of the Harare Municipal Police while
filming an incident involving a truck driver and
municipal police officers along Lytton Road in
Harare.

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16 July 2020

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