Police Suppress Anti-Regime Paper
Police occupied the press building of Zimbabwe’s largest independent daily newspaper shortly after the paper’s owner said a judge had granted a new license allowing it to resume publication.
The government said the ruling had no force and insisted that Daily News owner Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe had no legal right to publish.
Police closed the Daily News in September after a court ruled that the paper, which has been critical of the government since the publication’s inception, was operating without license in defiance of laws enacted last year.
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