High Court Judge Justice Edith Mushore has ordered Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga to pay a compensation of ZWL$4 million dollars in damages for the death of Tinashe Choto who was shot by police in Chitungwiza during a 2019
A recent report by Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum (The Forum) says at least one thousand, two hundred and two (1 202) politically motivated human rights violations were committed between the period of 1 April 2020 to 30 September 2020. The consolidated statistics relate to assault, torture,
Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) Director, Jestina Mukoko has called on the government to excise restraint and end abductions and torture of Civil Society and opposition leaders to enhance democracy. Mukoko, a victim of abductions and torture during the late President Robert Mugabe’s era told 263Chat recently
The Constitutional Court recently issued an ultimatum to the government to set up an Independent Complaints Commission (ICM) which will investigate security forces implicated in human rights abuses and acts of violence. The ICM which will be set up through an act of parliament will be
Zimbabweans are living in fear of the government’s iron fist rule and the militarisation of state institutions which has shrunk economic development and further worsened the democratic space, a human right advocate has said. Most citizens are fearful of the increased security forces presence on the
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) said it is investigating a matter where a female minor (16) died in a hospital with a swollen face to which the police are suspecting a lovers quarrel which ended up brutal
Zimbabwe has seen an unprecedented increase in the levels of violence against women by the police especially during the sporadic demonstrations and city council's unending running battles with vendors. Disturbing images of women being beaten by police have gone viral on social media a lot this
The Law Society of Zimbabwe, LSZ has raised red flags over assault of human rights lawyer, Doug Coltart, calling upon the Commissioner-General of Police to take immediate disciplinary action on the errant police
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