# 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](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2003-zimbabwe-daily-news-shut-down)
- Source: Attacks on the Press 2003: Zimbabwe. https://cpj.org/2004/03/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

Source page: https://thewaronnews.com/claims/578. The War On News, CC BY 4.0.