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Beset by economic problems and controversy over its military involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo civil war, President Robert Mugabe's government increasingly clamped down on independent media and their efforts to question his rule. The most egregious attack on press freedom in Zimbabwe last year was the illegal arrest and torture in January of…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260