Media Alert
18 January 2010
Journalist flees Zimbabwe following death threats.Senior freelance journalist Stanley Kwenda has reportedly fled the country after he was allegedly phoned and threatened with death by a senior police officer.
Kwenda fled the country over the weekend after he was phoned on his cellphone on 15 January 2010 by the alleged senior police officer over a story reportedly published in The Zimbabwean newspaper. The police officer allegedly told him that he would not survive the weekend. Kwenda who is a member of MISA-Zimbabwe's Harare Advocacy Committee, is the director of the Artists for Democracy Zimbabwe Trust (ADZT). MISA-Zimbabwe condemns this development as yet another serious threat to media freedom and the right of journalists to conduct their lawful professional duties without fear or hindrance from any quarters.
MISA-Zimbabwe urges the inclusive government and the Police Commissioner General to unequivocally guarantee the safety of journalists and to assure Kwenda of his security pending full investigations into the alleged threats. For any questions, queries or comments, please contact: Nyasha Nyakunu Senior Programmes Officer
MISA-Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe
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Email: misa@misazim.co.zw
Website: www.misazim.co.zw
Michael Chipato
Media and Social Consultant
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About Me
- Michael Chipato
- Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
- Michael Chipato is a social and development scientist currently living in Birmingham.Over the years issues pertaining social inequalities, dictatorship, political oppression and gender disparities have been his research focus.As an artist, journalist and academic Michael's philosophy of life is greatly influenced by Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) ... a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal (1960–1980). Senghor was the first African to sit as a member of the Académie française. He was also the founder of the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century. Senghor created the concept of Négritude, an important intellectual movement that sought to assert and to valorize what they believed to be distinctive African characteristics, values, and aesthetics..He does not condone oppression and violence in any shape or form.
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