International PEN protests against abuse of writers

International PEN has protested abuses against writers during its 2002 Congress. Denouncing the arrests and judicial harassment of journalists, in particular of the editor-in-chief of the Daily News, Geoffrey Nyarota; and expressing alarm at the use of violence, the introduction of restrictive press legislation and the exorbitant financial levies placed on independent journalists in Zimbabwe in order to limit democracy and freedom of expression.