Information Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo and the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe chairperson Dr Tafataona Mahoso rubbished Amnesty International officials who wanted the government’s position on the licencing of community radio stations. 
“In February and in March of this year formal requests for meeting s were sent to Professor Jonathan Moyo and Dr Tafataona Mahoso and its regrettable that both of them denied to meet with Amnesty International and   to both express the government’s position as well as the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe’s position on the issue of the licencing of community radios,” Amnesty International Deputy Director Research for Southern Africa Region Noel Kututwa said told Zimeye.com  in an interview this week. 
“We followed up the request for interviews to the two by sending questions asking them specific questions which we wanted to include in the report  and again those questions went unanswered .So we went ahead to publish our report without the government’s position”. 
The research whose report titled “Beyond Tokenism-The need to licence community radios in Zimbabwe” was conducted in October last and concluded in March 2015. 
Zimbabwean government has not licensed a single community radio station despite the existence of Broadcasting Services Act which was passed in 2001, which recognizes the three-tier broadcasting system. 
There are at least 28 community radio initiatives exist awaiting to be licensed.
Journalists and activists advocating for community broadcasting have been harassed by state security agents. 
Amnesty International also recommended the International community to hold Zimbabwe accountable for the arrests and harassment of community radio activists.