Lawyers representing six police officers who allegedly brutally assaulted two women from Bulawayo’s Cowdray Park suburb during the lockdown period claimed they could not get to court to due to…
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Bulawayo residents are being denied entry into the Central Business District this morning. Roadblocks manned by army officials and the police are reportedly turning away ZUPCO buses and all private…
HARARE Magistrate Bianca Makwande on Monday 15 June 2020 ordered Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) to allow three victims of abduction and torture, who she condemned to prison after…
THREE victims of abduction and torture will spend the weekend in jail after Harare Magistrate Bianca Makwande indicated that she will hand down her ruling on their bail application next…
Executive Summary On 23 May 2020, Paul Munakopa of Bulawayo died in circumstances that could have well been avoided. The 34-year-old was a victim of the police’s heavy-handedness. He was…
Zim Court Rejects Onerous Bail Conditions for Abductees as Authorities Convene Bedside Court Session
HARARE Magistrate Barbra Mateko on Thursday 28 May 2020 rejected a bid by prosecutors to impose onerous bail conditions on three opposition MDC-Alliance party youth leaders, who were charged for…
The Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) together with WELEAD Trust, Economic Justice for Women Project (EJWP), Female Prisoners Support Trust (FEMPRIST), Imba Mukadzi Umuzi Ngumama Trust (IMUNT),…
The Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) is deeply concerned with reports of an increase in alleged corruption by ZRP officers, ZNA soldiers and the Municipal Police, and the District…
Journalists Frank Chikowore and Samuel Takawira were on 23 May 2020 denied bail and remanded in custody to 26 May 2020 on charges of breaching Section 11 (b) of Statutory…
TWO Zimbabwean journalists will spend the weekend in jail pending the determination of their application for release from prison custody on bail. The two journalists Frank Chikowore, a freelance journalist…