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Home > Zimbabwe: Mugabe brings a critical press to heel

Contributor [1]
Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 02:00
Categories: 
Media & freedom of expression [2]
Issue Number: 
46 [3]
Article-Summary: 

This article will be punishable by up to two years in prison under the new media law that Robert Mugabe is likely to push through Zimbabwe's parliament this week. For a start, it quotes the Herald newspaper in Harare - a government propagandist rag with little regard for the truth or its plummeting circulation - for the want of a response from Zimbabwe's minister of information about the coming legislation.

Category: 
ICT, Media & Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/media/4698 [5]
Country: 
Zimbabwe [6]

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