Cyber Security Act a threat to freedom of the media and expression
Human rights defenders have spoken out against the arrest of Newsday journalists for allegedly breaching the Cyber and Data Protection Act. The publication’s editor Wisdom Mudzungairi and journalist Desmond Chingarande who are the country’s first scribes to be arrested under the law are facing charges of violating the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act as read with sections of the newly gazetted cyber security law.