5. Programme B: Media Freedom Monitoring An unidentified man reads a copy of the Daily News in Harare, Zimbabwe, after the paper went back on the streets on Saturday October 2, 2003, a month after the police closed the paper for operating without a licence. Photo: AP/Picturenet. “ Censorship, or the suppression of information is the antithesis of media freedom and the single most important act which organisations such as MISA guard against …. Not only does it affect the real and immediate working conditions of media workers, but also the right of every citizen to receive and impart information. An attack thus on a media worker as a result of information uncovered or about to be uncovered, is an attack on each and every citizens, since the media’s right to inform is contingent on the citizen’s right to receive information. ” So this is Democracy? 1999 MISA Annual Report (April 2003 – March 2004) 32