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Brickbat: Pirate Radio

Charles Oliver | 4.3.2013 7:30 AM


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Zimbabwean police have been seizing radios in villages across the country. Officials say the radios are being used to spread hate speech. But human rights activists worry it's part of a clamp down on media before elections later this year.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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