Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Zimbabwe: Concerns over crackdown on rights activists


Rights groups reveal that Zimbabwean authorities have launched a widespread crackdown on political dissent and rights activists ahead of the elections next year. A number of rights activists, lawyers and journalists have been detained and the latest incident concerned the arrest of 29 members from the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) while attending a meeting. Despite later releasing 27 of them, two were charged with “organising an unlawful gathering and failing to notify the police of a gathering in contravention of a Section the Public Order and Security Act (POSA).

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