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Victim/Concerned

Issue

Date

263 Chat

Police fired teargas canisters into the 263Chat

4 April 2019

Offices/journalist

offices where Mutongwiza had fled to while

Lovejoy Mutongwiza.

covering an operation by the police and Harare

Party

municipal police against vendors in the city centre.
One of the police officers reportedly fired a
canister at the journalist which struck him on the
abdomen.
Fani Talkmore

Assaulted by the police and sustained injuries

16 August

Mapfumo, journalist

while filming the police as they dispersed

2019

with online publication

demonstrators in Harare’s central business district.

Zim Morning Post.
Ruvimbo Muchenje,

Anti-riot police assaulted Muchenje with batons

19 October

Alpha Media Holdings

during running battles between the cops and

2019

journalist.

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.

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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