DETAINED
Victim/Concerned

Issue

Date

Mqondisi Nzipho,

Mqondisi was detained by police despite

14 January

journalist based in

displaying his media accreditation card while

2019

Zimbabwe’s second city

covering protests in Bulawayo

Party

of Bulawayo
Nunurai Jena,

Arrested and detained without charges for three

correspondent with

hours by police in Kadoma after they spotted him

VOA’s Studio 7

taking pictures of a roadblock mounted close to a

7 June 2019

polling station in Rimuka township.
Leopold Munhende,

Arrested at the New Government Complex in

23 August

journalists with

Harare while covering a demonstration by

2019

NewZimbabwe.Com.

members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers
Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ).
According to his colleague, Costa Nkomo, they
were filming the demonstrations when the police
approached Munhende. Nkomo said they still
bundled Munhende into their vehicle despite the
fact that he had shown them his accreditation card.

Journalist Steven Tsoroti

Assaulted by the police for reportedly taking

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pictures as the police ordered passengers to

December

disembark from a commuter omnibus. Tsoroti was

2019

detained at Harare Central Police station for more
than three hours. Released without charges but
warned for disorderly conduct.

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