Fanuel Mapfumo has been unable to lift heavy objects since a Zimbabwe police officer fractured his left arm as he was covering a story last August.
Opposition supporters were voicing their discontent with the country's ailing economy when police descended on the crowd with batons."I identified myself as a journalist," he told AFP.
"But the next thing I remember is being dragged into a group of police officers who beat me all over my body." Rights groups have accused Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa of persistently violating human rights since he took office in 2018. In August last year six people died after the army used force against civilians protesting a delay in the announcement of election results.And as Mnangagwa has tightened his stance on dissent, journalists have also suffered repercussions.
"We documented 18 cases of abuse of members of the media this year," said Tabani Moyo, who heads the Media Institute of Southern Africa -- up from only one case in 2018.
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