Zimbabwe: Mugabe backlash fear over misleading report

Fears were raised yesterday that Zimbabwe's regime could seek to step up its curbs on the media after it emerged that the Independent's Harare correspondent wrote a misleading story about his treatment by the police. The Media Institute of Southern Africa, a journalists' lobby group, accused Basildon Peta, 30, of "giving grounds" for "further repression" after he filed a detailed account of being held overnight in police cells last week.