zimbabwe: Mugabe seals fate of free press

President Robert Mugabe's government has refused to issue the licence needed to publish to the Daily News, following the closure of that newspaper last week. By shutting down the country's only privately owned daily publication, the Mugabe regime has struck a blow at the country's struggling free press, which is left with just a couple of independent weekly papers. The Daily News has been shut for the past week and police seized the paper's computers and other equipment in defiance of a high court order that the paper should be allowed to publish.