Another newspaper shut down in Zimbabwe

11 Jun, 2004

Zimbabwean authorities have shut down another independent paper, the weekly Tribune, owned by a ruling party lawmaker, the publisher and the state media commission said Thursday.
"We have just received a letter saying that our licence is cancelled and will remain cancelled for a year," publisher Kindness Paradza told AFP.
Under Zimbabwe's tough media laws, all news organisations have to obtain a licence from the state media commission.

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