Right to Privacy and Publicity of Name of Juvenile The child’s privacy should be respected from the point of arrest until the trial is completed, and the name of the juvenile shall not be published by any means, and no information likely to reveal the identity of the juvenile should be released. 46 However, this was not strictly followed. In one case, parents of a 16-year-old child arrested in Mabvuku learnt of the arrest of her child on national television, when they identified her child as part of a group of prisoners being transported to court by the ZPCS. 3.3 Conclusion The majority of children were arrested in group arrests, or while going about on the streets. Upon arrest, they were bundled with adults, and were detained in police cells, including at the CID Law and Order section of the Harare Central Police Station. This indiscriminate pre-trial detention was at odds with section 84 of the Children’s Act [Chapter 5:06], which provides for the circumstances in which a child can be detained pre-trial. Some children were over-detained, beyond the stipulated 48 hours, and on a few occasions, lawyers were hindered from accessing children in police detention. Children were assaulted both by members of the military and the polices forces. The privacy of detained children was not fully ensured, as evidenced by the showing on national television the face of a child in detention. All in all, international and national norms and standards of child justice were violated in the manner in which arrests were effected and the children were treated once arrested. There was a conspicuously disturbing trend in the effected arrests: arrests were mostly if not exclusively in CBDs and highdensity areas. This is a deeply structural issue that has been becoming apparent in skirmishes that have been recorded in recent times – with the dichotomy between low density and high-density areas apparent. 46. Article 40(2)(b)(iv) of the UNCRC and section 195 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act. 21 ‘Hear them Cry ’ – An Analysis of State Violence Against Children During the January 2019 Protests

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