The Welshman Ncube led MDC has condemned the arrest yesterday by the police of Media Centre director Ernest Mudzengi saying the development exposes President Robert Mugabe’s barbarism.
Mudzengi was on Thursday arrested for running an online portal which published a story of President Robert Mugabe’s Gushungo holdings bombing.
Mudzengi was later released without charges after the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights had intervened.
In a statement Friday Kurauone Chihwayi the MDC national spokesperson said the arrest was barbaric.
“The MDC unreservedly condemns the callous and barbaric arrest of Mudzengi and many other media practitioners who have truthfully written about President Mugabe,his ministers and government officials,”he said.
“We are urging the regime to keep away from media houses to enable them to execute their duties without any fear or favour and incessant attempts to zip up the media should stop”.
MDC said the continued arrest of journalists is a ploy by government to frustrate the media so that they stop playing their watch dog role.
“The Mugabe regime should respect freedom of the Press to allow correct information to smoothly flow to the news consumers,” said Chihwayi.
The state continues the scrapped criminal defamation laws to arrest journalists who would have reported critically on President Mugabe.