Zimbabwe

13 million people
660 USD GNI (PPP)
Internet:
Partly Free
Press:
Not Free
Partly Free

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Press Releases

Zimbabwe: Government Proposes Tighter Controls over Social Media

August 8, 2016

The government of Zimbabwis introducing legislation to tightly restrict access to social media and monitor private communications. 
Press Releases

Zimbabwe: Police Assault Journalists

August 3, 2016

Freedom House condemns the violence used by police in Zimbabwe's capital against a peaceful public protest.
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‘Simba ku Vanhu’: Zimbabwean Protesters Face a Leadership in Turmoil

August 3, 2016

Economic crisis has again driven citizens to the streets. But with factional strife dividing the old power structure, achieving genuine change will require a shrewd political strategy.
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Zimbabwe: Protesters Arrested, Social Media Blocked

July 6, 2016

Freedom House issued the following statement in response to recent arrests of protesters and blocked access to a communications app in Zimbabwe.

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Daniel Calingaert

Acting President

Dr. Daniel Calingaert is Acting President at Freedom House.

Issues: 
Civil Society, Elections
Regions: 
Middle East and North Africa

Vukasin Petrovic

Senior Director for Program Strategy, Development and Learning and Director for Central, East and West Africa Programs


Issues: 
Civil Society, Elections, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights
Regions: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

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Change and ‘New’ Politics in Zimbabwe

Zimbabweans are showing the evidence of having been torn in all directions in the transitional period, according to a new poll sponsored by Freedom House and conducted by South African political analyst Susan Booysen and the Mass Public Opinion Institute in Harare.

Worst of the Worst 2007

Sudan, North Korea and Uzbekistan are prominent among the most repressive regimes in the world, according to a report released by Freedom House.  The study, “The Worst of the Worst: The World's Most Repressive Societies 2007,” named seventeen countries with the worst records for political rights and civil liberties, and pointed to thirteen countries which have been on the list for five years or more.

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