Zimbabwe - Jail term and radio station raid fuel concern in Zimbabwe

Reporters without borders

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government seems to be taking a tougher line with the media, raiding a community radio station and imposing a prison sentence on a journalist in the space of a week. The latest events follow weeks of gathering storm clouds for the media in Zimbabwe, a country that saw 22 media freedom violations in 2014 and whose president who is on the Reporters Without Borders list of “Predators of Press Freedom.” “The two latest developments have sounded a new alarm (...)

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