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20 May 2008
Dear Sir,
I have read a very slanderous article attacking my person, entitled Guard Against Garande.
I shall be seeking legal action against your organisation through your ISP and other stakeholders.
I shall also be writing to police authorities in the UK and in Zimbabwe where your ISP is registered; seeking that your website be investigated for a possible breach of internet law and law on slander.
Your publication of my photograph is in violation of my privacy and I shall be initiating legal action against you.
Your publication writes: ?Before the elections Garande slammed the scourge of violence, spoke passionately about how Mugabe rigged elections and even praised Morgan Tsvangirai for his courage in standing up to Mugabe.?
I shall be requesting copies of the SW Radio Africa tapes where I have said words to this effect, which I will furnish to authorities here in the U.K. and at home in Zimbabwe.
I have to let you know that prosecutions are possible in the United Kingdom for the violations cited above and I shall be asking you to contact forthwith zimbabwesituation to have that article removed from their index.
Such falsehoods are tantamount to tanishing my image and let me express the fact that free speech is a right enjoyed here in the UK and denying me that right is illegal.
Let me remind you that by publishing falsehoods and pictures of myself you are in violation of copyright infringement law, threats and harassment etc. As a customer of Bravenet.com you have also infringed their Terms of Service.
I am requesting a retraction of your 'opinion piece' and an apology published on the same space; if the issue is not to be pursued further.
Many thanks.
Itayi Garande
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