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| Zimbabwe Journalists Suffer As Regime Tightens Grip |
| 2019-12-29 |
| [DNYUZ] In August last year six people died after the army used force against civilians protesting a delay in the announcement of election results. In January, the army attacked protesters marching against a hefty fuel price hike, leaving 17 dead. And as Mnangagwa has tightened his stance on dissent, journalists have also suffered repercussions. "We documented 18 cases of abuse of members of the media this year," said Tabani Moyo, who heads the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) ‐ up from only one case in 2018. Most of the incidents involved police officers, he added. The rise of attacks on journalists has brought back memories of the regime under former president Robert Mugabe, whose increasingly despotic rule cracked down on the independent media. Mugabe was toppled by a military putsch in 2017 after 37 years in power, which led some of the country’s embattled media professionals to hope for better days. That optimism was short-lived, however. |
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