On October 4 2020, an article was published in The Sunday Mail in which it was reported that principles of a proposed Patriot Bill aimed at criminalising private correspondence with…
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Executive Summary In September, Zimbabwe turned the corner and joined, full time, the dark list of the world’s repressive regimes, where citizens are reduced to nothing but subjects who are…
Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono on 22 July 2020 appeared before Harare Magistrate Ngoni Nduna who remanded him in custody to tomorrow for the continuation of his bail hearing. This was Chin’ono’s…
Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and opposition Transform Zimbabwe party leader Jacob Ngarivhume on Wednesday 22 July, 2020 appeared before judicial officers at Harare Magistrates Court answering to charges of inciting…
ZIMCODD notes with grave concern the arbitrary arrest of Hopewell Chin’ono, a member of the media and Jacob Ngarivhume, an activist and leader of Transform Zimbabwe. Media freedoms remain a…
Armed men broke into ARTUZ President Cde Obert Masaraure’s house today at 01:00 hrs on 17 July, 2020. They broke the doors, forced themselves in, kidnapped his wife for about…
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), condemns the attempted abductions which are targeting union leaders simply because they are demanding that worker welfare be improved. Four men clad…
Zimbabwean authorities have stepped up their onslaught against dissent by arresting several university students and a unionist for allegedly protesting against the clampdown on human rights defenders and demanding an…
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) notes the statement from the Working Committee of the National Security Council (WCNSC) of Zimbabwe on the 10th of June 2020, dismissing widespread rumours…
Set against the backdrop of a week of global protests against state brutality and discrimination, the Young Lawyers Association of Zimbabwe (YLAZ) is increasingly concerned by the continued deterioration of…