(MISA/IFEX) – The following is a MISA press release: April 5, 2000 Police detain independent filmmaker On April 1 2000, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) detained Edwina Spicer, co-ordinator of the Media Monitoring Project in Zimbabwe and independent filmmaker, for a two hour period because she filmed a police roadblock near the Remand Prison on […]
(MISA/IFEX) – The following is a MISA press release:
April 5, 2000
Police detain independent filmmaker
On April 1 2000, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) detained Edwina Spicer, co-ordinator of the Media Monitoring Project in Zimbabwe and independent filmmaker, for a two hour period because she filmed a police roadblock near the Remand Prison on Enterprise Road in Harare.
Spicer told MISA-ZIMBABWE that she was filming the police roadblock after the violence that occurred in the capital. She was not allowed to leave and was later taken to Harare Central Station.
Despite displaying her Ministry of Information Press accreditation card, which appeals for assistance to be accorded to journalists on duty, she was informed by the police that all her cameras were going to be confiscated.
The police told Spicer it was a new Emergency Order from the Police Commissioner and that filming had become illegal. However, she was eventually released and given back her video camera.
