2022 Media Freedom Violations Table Arrested/Charged/ Denied bail/ Detained Victim/Concerned Party Issue Date Alpha Media Holdings journalists Blessed Mhlanga and Chengeto Chidi Mhlanga and Chidi were 7 May, 2022 charged for contravening Section 25 (a) as read with Section 30 of Statutory Instrument 21/2005, which prohibits taking of photographs within a polling station. The alternative charge was on disorderly conduct in a polling station as defined by section 89 of the Electoral Act. They were subsequently acquitted of the charges. ZimLive Editor Mduduzi Mathuthu Mathuthu was charged with 6 June 2022 contravening Section 33 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act which deals with undermining the authority of the President or insulting the President. The charge stemmed from a Tweet posted by Mathuthu on his Twitter account relating to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s address when he suspended lending by banks to both private companies and government departments. Freelance journalist Anyway Yotamu Yotamu was reportedly assaulted 7 July 2022 and arrested by the police in Harare’s central business district while covering an altercation between city parking attendants and touts. Alpha Media Holdings editorin-chief Wisdom Mdzungairi and senior reporter Desmond Chingarande Mdzungairi and Chingarande were arrested and charged under Section 164C of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act as amended by the Cyber and Data Protection Act following o a story they published pertaining to the legal squabbles relating to Glenforest Memorial Park in Harare. 3 August, 2022 State of the Media Report 21