Pressure on media grows as Zimbabwe elections approach

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 26 February 2008 at 18:22
Tags: Journalism

Robert Mugabe’s government is tightening its crackdown on the media in the lead up to the 29 March elections, Reporters Without Borders claims.
Journalists have been arrested, ordered to reveal sources and newspapers threatened with closure “in an upsurge of harassment that seriously threatens press freedom ahead of polling,” press freedom organisation claims.

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