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Original Post Date: 2001-08-29 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 8/29/2001 3:13:35 AM
Britain urges Zimbabwe not to expel journalist
28/07/2001
Jack Straw, the British Foreign Secretary, has urged Zimbabwe to reconsider
its expulsion of a British journalist, warning of disapproval from the
international community. David Blair, the Daily Telegraph’s Harare-based
correspondent, said he was called before Jonathan Moyo, Zimbabwe’s
Information Minister, and ordered to leave the country when his current work
permit expires in three weeks.
“The international community will not be impressed by any actions of the
government of Zimbabwe which make it more difficult for the international
media to report what is happening there,” Straw said in a statement.
Straw said he was concerned by the move and urged the Zimbabwean government
to reconsider.
Blair says his meeting with Moyo was underpinned by a feeling of menace and
the message that he was being closely watched.
“He would not reveal why he had rejected my application. I repeatedly asked
for a reason and was repeatedly rebuffed with the mantra that it was an
administrative decision,” Blair wrote in the paper. “Before I had even sat
down, Moyo casually let slip a detail about my future plans that he could
only have learnt from a tapped telephone conversation, intercepted e-mail or
an informant.”
Blair said Moyo ordered him to leave Zimbabwe on July 16 when his current
work permit expired but he planned to leave sooner.
Political analysts have said President Robert Mugabe, in power since the
former Rhodesia gained independence from Britain in 1980, has launched a
campaign against the media, the judiciary and the opposition ahead of
presidential elections due early next year. In February Joseph Winter, a BBC
correspondent, was ordered to leave the country. Winter said that shortly
after the expulsion order a gang of security agents attacked his home,
forcing him and his young family to take refuge in the British High
Commission.
Uruguayan journalist Mercedes Sayagues, a correspondent for South Africa’s
Mail & Guardian newspaper, was expelled from Zimbabwe in February.
After those expulsions, Moyo denied there was an active campaign against the
media saying the government was simply applying the law. – Reuters