27 Feb Assault abitrary arrests & Following a four weeks demonstration by National University of Science & Technology (NUST) lectures the students held peaceful demonstrations and blocked the entrance to the University to petition for Unknown their right to education as articulated by section 75 of the Constitution. Riot Police then intervened with water cannons and arrested over 40 students. it is reported that some students were injured during the course of the riot crack down. ZRP Nature of violations Violations during the month of February were mostly torture, assault, and violation of freedom of the media and harassment and intimidation. The nature of the violations, the number of the victims and the perpetrator category are shown in Table 2 below. FIGURE 1: Distribution of Perpetrators by Violator Institution: February 2018 The ZRP was the main perpetrator of violence, accounting for 51% of the violence, followed by ZANU PF, which accounted for 28.6% of the violence. 8