Media professionals in Zimbabwe have been left shocked by Robert Mugabe's decision to reappoint Jonathan Moyo as the country's Information Minister, with fears of a return to the media clampdown he once presided over.
Moyo, who was the Information Minister from 2000 to 2005, is often described as a media 'hangman' after designing and implementing repressive legislation in 2001, which resulted in a serious clampdown on media freedom. The laws, which have never been repealed, saw the arrest of many foreign journalists, the closure of independent media groups and the hounding of non-state media professionals, many of whom fled into exile.
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