Claim 578

Police raided the newspaper's offices the day after the ruling and ordered journalists to leave the building.

Published 2026-09-23. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: Police raided the newspaper's offices the day after the ruling and ordered journalists to leave the building.
Field: action
Value: police raid, September 12, 2003
About: incident 2003-zimbabwe-daily-news-shut-down
Source: Attacks on the Press 2003: Zimbabwe
Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2004-03-11

Quotation from the source

police raided the newspaper's offices and ordered all journalists to leave the building, using the Supreme Court's declaration as a pretext