{"id":223237,"date":"2026-02-09T00:20:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-press-freedom-under-siege-as-journalist-charged-under-cyber-law\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:20:50","slug":"zimbabwe-press-freedom-under-siege-as-journalist-charged-under-cyber-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-press-freedom-under-siege-as-journalist-charged-under-cyber-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Press Freedom Under Siege As Journalist Charged Under Cyber Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Zimbabwe Online Content Creators (ZOCC) has condemned the arrest of Zimbo Live journalist Pellagia Mupurwa warning that the case poses a serious threat to press freedom in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Mupurwa has been charged under Zimbabwe&#8217;s Cyber and Data Protection Act for the alleged &#8220;transmission of false data messages intending to cause harm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In a statement, ZOCC said the arrest was part of a &#8220;troubling and dangerous pattern&#8221; in which laws are being used to target journalists for carrying out their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Online Content Creators (ZOCC) has condemned the arrest of Zimbo Live journalist Pellagia Mupurwa warning that the case poses a serious threat to press freedom in the country. Mupurwa has been charged under Zimbabwe&#8217;s Cyber and Data Protection Act for the alleged &#8220;transmission of false data messages intending to cause harm&#8221;. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7081,6197,7636,7277,7077,257,6010,4940,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-223237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charged","tag-cyber","tag-freedom","tag-journalist","tag-law","tag-news","tag-press","tag-siege","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}