Bombings And Bannings: Mugabe Versus The Press

In Zimbabwe journalism is in crisis, and journalists are in danger: The last year or so has seen illegal arrests and torture of reporters, a proposed ban on foreign investment in media, the bombing of a newspaper's printing presses in the capital, Harare, and the Law and Order Maintenance Act, which makes it a criminal offense to publish anything "likely to cause alarm or despondency" (and carries a prison sentence of up to seven years).