Word: chavunduka
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After multiple court orders for the journalists’ release and demands for their freedom from international groups, including Harvard’s Nieman Fellows, Chavunduka and Choto were eventually released on bail and charged with “publishing a false story capable of causing alarm and despondency...
...Chavunduka won a Nieman Fellowship, a year-long appointment for mid-career journalists to study at Harvard...
...Chavunduka rose to prominence in the sub-Saharan African media when at the age of 24 he took over as editor of Parade, Zimbabwe’s largest news magazine, becoming the youngest editor of a national publication in Zimbabwe...
...privately owned publication became a forum for criticism of Mugabe’s government. In January 1999, Chavunduka and Ray Choto, the chief reporter at The Standard, were arrested and brutally tortured after the newspaper published a story reporting an alleged military coup against Mugabe...
...Chavunduka and Choto were beaten, subjected to electric shock all over their bodies, and subjected to other forms of torture...