
New York, July 27, 2007—Veteran editor Abel Mutsakani, one of dozens of Zimbabwean journalists forced into exile in neighboring South Africa, was shot in the chest on Monday after three unidentified men attacked him near his home in Johannesburg, according to news reports.
Mutsakani, editor of the South Africa-based Zimbabwean news Web site ZimOnline, still had a single bullet lodged near his heart but was resting at home today after four days in the hospital, his colleagues told CPJ. The bullet had also sliced through his left hand, they said. A police investigation was under way.