p2pnet.net news:- A radio station being hounded by Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe says it’s found a way around having its emails read by local authorities.

SW Radio Africa founder Gerry Jackson says censors haven’t caught on to her text messaging, according to CNET News.

‘Internet service providers have to give the CIO, the secret police, access to e-mails if asked to do so,’ it has Jackson saying, referring to the Central Intelligence Organization. ‘The penalty for noncompliance is two years in jail.”

Jackson escaped from Zimbabwe, “after security forces pulled the plug on her station and now she broadcasts from outside London,” says CNET, reporting on a conference organized by the World Press Freedom Committee and the World Association of Newspapers in Paris.

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Also See:
CNET News – Exiled journalists circumvent censors by text messaging, February 16, 2007

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