(iv)Executive Summary The project context of analysing artistic and the takes different forms and legal approaches. The rationale being to in restrict access to and distribution of freedom Zimbabwe was commissioned by materials Freemuse and Nhimbe Trust as a information is shared and received platform to feed into the Universal in the belief that society must be Periodic protected Review process when through from which undesirable Zimbabwe enters the second cycle of information. review following the submission of The first legislation to implement the inaugural National Report in and 2011. examines enacted in the form of two laws, one restrictions on freedom of artistic regulating obscenity and another expression cinematography, This report in Zimbabwe. The regulate censorship in the Southern be submitted to the United Nations culminating Human Rights Council as part of legislation first in 1932, and then in the UPR – the UN system’s official 1967 in the form of Censorship and mechanism for reviewing all member Entertainments Control Act, 1967. states This is the current legislation with rights records in in in then findings and recommendations will human Rhodesia was one 1912, piece cycles of four and a half years. amendments since its enactment. Zimbabwe Freedom of artistic expression is a comes up for of ‘examination’ of its human rights key component of the right to record in 2016. A central part of the freedom of expression. Section 61 (b) UPR process is qualified inputs from of the 2013 Constitution of civil society. Zimbabwe says that every person has the right to freedom of The legal analysis made a number of expression which includes freedom findings. Zimbabwe practices pre- of artistic expression and scientific censorship of artistic production. research and creativity . It specifically provides for artistic Censorship is a practice exercised in expression thereby eliminating any different jurisdictions the world over 8 | Page