MISA Zimbabwe therefore implores the negotiating parties as well as the mediators to remain true to the need for a transitional process that carries the people’s confidence. This can only be achieved in an environment that immediately allows citizens to enjoy their fundamental right to freedom of expression, association, assembly, access to information and media freedom. End Media Violations Statistics 2008 Arrests, media laws, litigation Victim/concerned party Access to Information Protection of Privacy (AIPPA), Public Order Security Act (POSA) Broadcasting Services (BSA). and Act and and Act The Financial Gazette and The Zimbabwe Independent publishing companies. Issue Date The amendments to these repressive media laws were gazetted on 14 December 2007. The Bills which included the Electoral Laws Amendment Act were signed into law by President Robert Mugabe on 11 January 2008. 11 January 2008 Zimbabwe’s constricted private newspaper publishing industry faced imminent collapse in the wake of prohibitive productions costs and an acute shortage of newsprint. 31 January 2008 Bright Chibvuri, editor of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions’ The Worker magazine. Chibvuri was being charged 31 January 2008 with contravening Section 83 of AIPPA which penalises the practice of journalism without accreditation .The trial which was supposed to have resumed on 31 January 2008 was postponed yet again because the trial magistrate Mark Dzira was on a prison visit in the border town of Plumtree where the trial is being held. Bright Chibvuri, editor of the The trial was once more 1 February 2008. Zimbabwe Congress of Trade postponed to 28 February Unions’ The Worker 2008 after magistrate Mark magazine. Dzira ruled that he needed time to consider legal 14