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[HCDX] Zimbabwe police raid broadcaster + radio station closes down (3 items)
Zimbabwe police raid broadcaster
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4534116.stm
Zimbabwe police have raided the offices of an independent
radio
station in Harare and arrested three journalists.
The station, Voice of the People, broadcasts via Radio
Netherlands.
Independent stations not are permitted to transmit from
inside
Zimbabwe.
Police also seized computers during Thursday's raid.
"They had a search warrant on which it said they were
going to search
for broadcasting equipment," managing editor Shorai Kariwa
said.
Lawyer Tafadzwa Mugabe said three staff members had been
arrested
in an "unprocedural" manner.
The three were still being held by police late on Thursday
evening.
The raid comes two days after Information Minister
Tichaona Jokonya
threatened to take action against the independent media,
which he
accused of representing Western interests.
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Zimbabwe police raid independent radio station
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/b
reaking_
news__africa&articleid=259406
Harare, Zimbabwe
16 December 2005 01:02
Police raided the offices of an independent radio station
on Thursday in
Harare and arrested three reporters, a senior staff member
said.
More than a dozen police offices conducted the raid at the
central
Harare offices of Voice of the People (VOP) and also
seized
documents and computers, said managing editor Shorai
Kariwa.
"They had a search warrant on which it said they were
going to search
for broadcasting equipment," said Kariwa, who was not at
the offices at
the time of the raid.
VOP, which operates in the Southern African country as a
trust,
broadcasts news and information into the country via Radio
Netherlands. No independent radio stations are allowed to
broadcast
from inside Zimbabwe.
Lawyer Tafadzwa Mugabe confirmed the arrest of three VOP
staff
members but said their detention was "unprocedural".
In a telephone interivew late on Thursday, he charged that
police were
holding the three reporters as "ransom" to coerce the VOP
director "to
come to the police station".
He said those arrested were being charged under Zimbabwe's
broadcasting laws.
In 2002, VOP's offices were bombed by unknown attackers.
There
were no injuries, but all of the station's equipment was
destroyed.
Thursday's raid came two days after Information Minister
Tichaona
Jokonya told a gathering in Harare that independent
journalists in
Zimbabwe were "weapons of mass destruction", according to
a report
in the independent Financial Gazette newspaper.
"In their service to the foreign interests, they apply
strategies of
blending half-truths and outright lies," he was quoted as
saying.
"These deliberate acts of disinformation create
perceptions which are
neither helpful to the customers and indeed the generality
of our
people." - Sapa-DPA
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Radio station critical of govt gets closed down
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20
051216.C01
&irec=0
M. Aziz Tunny, The Jakarta Post, Ambon
The Southeast Maluku regency administration has ordered
the closure
of a radio station that often aired stories criticizing
the local authorities.
According to the order, Gelora Tavlul radio must stop
broadcasting
because its business permit expired in 2003.
The order was issued on Dec. 13, or about a month after
the local
administration rejected the radio management's request for
an
extension of their business permit.
Backed by a number of local police officers, the so-called
Maluku
Frequency Monitoring Team visited the radio station on
Thursday to
execute the order, telling the station to close.
They said that the stories aired by the station had
criticized the
administration's development and public service policies
"too often".
Joost F. Rettobjaan, the radio station's director, said
that the station
was unable to extend the permit after it expired as the
local
administration was virtually not functioning amid security
disturbances
of the time.
"(But now) instead of approving our business permit, the
administration
has told us to stop broadcasting. The business permit has
nothing to do
with the broadcasting permit, so what is it all about?" he
asked.
The radio director suspected that the administration was
banning the
station from broadcasting because of news stories
involving alleged
misuse of regional budget funds.
"We will not back down despite the order. We will stay on
air," Joost
said.
Gelora Tavlul Radio, which is affiliated with the Jakarta-
based 68h radio
network, has no hidden political motive behind the airing
of news
stories about corruption, he said.
"Media criticism is now nothing new (in this country). Why
do officials
feel threatened?" Joost said.
Herman Adrian Koedoeboen, the regent of the Southeast
Maluku
administration, could not be immediately reached for
comment.
In Jakarta, Minister of Communications and Information
Sofyan Djalil
said that the regional administration could not close
broadcasting
stations without approval from the regional-arm of the
Indonesia
Broadcasting Commission (KPI).
"Regional autonomy allows the local administration to
demand the
closure of broadcast media, but they must get approval
from the local
office of KPI," he said after attending a ceremony at the
Vice
Presidential Palace.
KPI Maluku chapter head Fredy Melmambessy has said that
the order
to close the radio station was illegal
"According to Law No. 32/2003 concerning broadcasting, it
is the KPI
who decides on closing radio stations. They should tell
the KPI if they
consider that the station has violated regulations. It is
only the KPI that
is authorized to impose sanctions," he said.
The KPI Maluku-chapter has ruled that the Gelora Tavlul
radio station
can continue its broadcasting despite the order.
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