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Contributor [1]
Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 02:00
Categories: 
Media & freedom of expression [2]
Issue Number: 
134 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Shadreck Pongo, a photojournalist with the Standard newspaper, was severely assaulted and injured by the police on 18 November in Harare while covering a nationwide demonstration organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). Riot police apprehended him while he was shooting photographs of demonstrators and pulled him into a police truck where they severely assaulted him.

Category: 
ICT, Media & Security [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/media/18634 [5]
Country: 
Zimbabwe [6]

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