British Foreign Secretary Mr Jack Straw has threatened diplomatic action against Zimbabwe following a warning by the Britain’s foreign office not to harass journalists.
The British High Commission lodged an official protest over the threat to journalists who reported the indiscriminate beatings of whites.
A spokesman for President Robert Mugabe was quoted in a state-controlled newspaper as calling six journalists "terrorists" after they reported on last week's political violence in Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo.
Mr Straw said he would also be consulting EU and Commonwealth colleagues on further action against Robert Mugabe's regime.
Mr Mugabe's government has been strongly criticised over human rights abuses and militants in his ruling party were reportedly involved in the attack a week ago.
Whites were beaten and offices of the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, were set on fire last week.
"It is now an open secret that these reporters are not only distorting the facts but are assisting terrorists who stand accused in our courts of law of abduction, torture and murder," an anonymous spokesman for President Mugabe said.
Correspondents with the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Timesand Independentnewspapers were named and these papers have urged the British Government to intervene.
Journalists for independent media have been arrested, harassed, threatened and beaten by militants and President Robert Mugabe’s security forces.