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Iden Wetherell, who had then become group projects editor of the Standard, said nothing would change until the government put an end to the poisonous atmosphere of violence and fear that it perpetuated.

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The editor of the Zimbabwe Independent Iden Wetherell together with news editor Vincent Kahiya and chief reporter Dumisani Muleya were arrested over a story in which they reported that President Robert Mugabe had commandeered an Air Zimbabwe plane for two legs of his vacation in the Far East.

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Jestina Mukoko, the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front could manipulate votes in a constitutional referendum or election through intimidation alone.

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The Supreme Court granted Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko a permanent stay of prosecution in the terrorism case against her because her constitutional rights were violated when she was abducted, tortured, and illegally detained in late 2008.

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Civil rights activist Jestina Mukoko sued Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and the co-Ministers of Home Affairs Kembo Mohadi and Giles Mutsekwa for US$220 000.

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Roy Bennett has been a pain in the neck of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front since he joined the Movement for Democratic Change. The party first chased him off his farm, claimed he was involved in an attempt to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, hounded him out of Parliament, forced him into exile, refused to appoint him deputy Minister of Agriculture. But the man, popularly known in Chimanimani as Pachedu, still hangs on as the chief fund-raiser of the MDC. There are 117 cables on him. Here they are.

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Editors of five privately-owned mainstream newspapers launched a national editors’ forum “to promote and defend press freedom and free speech”.

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The editor of the Zimbabwe Independent Iden Wetherell was arrested on 17 April 2002 for allegedly publishing a “false story” linking the First Lady, Grace Mugabe, to a labour dispute involving her brother.

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Iden Wetherell, the editor of the Zimbabwe Independent, told United States embassy officials that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo now functioned as the nation’s cabinet.

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