As was the case in 2018, we again recorded seven (7) cases involving the intimidation and harassment of journalists during the course of their work. Some of these media freedom violations were perpetrated by supporters of the major political parties, Zanu PF and MDC Alliance. Notable cases, among others, involve Costa Nkomo, journalist with 263Chat, who was on 9 January 2019, assaulted by the police as they were rounding up vendors in Harare’s central business district. On 4 April 2019, police fired teargas canisters into the 263Chat offices as they pursued journalist Lovejoy Mutongwizo who had been covering an operation by the police and Harare Municipal police. One of the police officers reportedly fired a canister at the journalist, which struck him on the abdomen. On 7 June 2019, Nunurai Jena, correspondent with VOA’s Studio 7, was arrested and detained without charges for about three hours by police in Kadoma after they spotted him taking pictures of a roadblock (police checkpoint), mounted close to a polling station in Rimuka township. These violations of media freedom continued with the assault of Talkmore Fani Mapfumo, journalist with online publication Zim Morning Post on 16 August 2019. He was assaulted by anti-riot police while filming the police as they were dispersing protesters in Harare’s central business district. Leopold Munhende, journalist with NewZimbabwe.Com, was on 23 August 2019 arrested at the New Government Complex in Harare while covering a demonstration by members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union, despite him duly producing his accreditation card. On 19 October 2019, anti-riot police assaulted Ruvimbo Muchenje, a journalist with Alpha Media Holdings, with batons during running battles between the cops and vendors in Harare’s central business district after a female police officer reportedly alerted her colleagues to her presence saying: there is a photojournalist deal with her. She sustained injuries following the assault. Of concern as has been the case over the years, is these cases involve members of the police who are supposed to protect journalists and the citizens in general. Worse still, the 13