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Original Post Date: 2001-08-29 Time: 03:09:57 Posted By: Jan
23/08/2001
Jack Straw, the British Foreign Secretary, has hit out at the persecution of
journalists in Zimbabwe, calling it a hallmark of a “brutal and insecure”
regime. He attacked the “absolutely appalling and outrageous way” in which
the Zimbabwean government was attempting to stamp out dissention. Straw said
it was “a mark of Mugabe’s government that it has sought to silence its
critics, and that in turn is a mark of a brutal regime and an insecure one”.
A Zimbabwe correspondent claimed in an article yesterday that his name was at
the top of a hit list allegedly drawn up by the government of President
Robert Mugabe. Basildon Peta said he made the discovery while investigating
rumours of a black list. Despite fearing that police would come and arrest
him, Peta vowed he would stay in the troubled former British colony to “tell
the truth”.
The so-called hit list has been published by a privately owned Zimbabwean
newspaper. The newspaper said those on the list would be “killed or harmed”
before the presidential elections expected next year. Relations between
Mugabe’s government and the independent local and foreign media have been
strained in recent months.
In February, Joseph Winter, a BBC resident correspondent in Harare was
expelled from the country for allegedly “propagating lies”. Another British
journalist, David Blair of The Daily Telegraph, then left the country after
the government refused to renew his work permit.
Grant Ferrett, also a BBC reporter, left earlier this year at the end of his
permit that he did not seek to renew. Zimbabwe recently decided to enforce
new regulations that foreign journalists apply for accreditation one month in
advance of travelling to the country, a move described by the US as “clearly
aimed at limiting the access of the international media to Zimbabwe”. –
Sapa-AFP