The police also suspected ZPP, which was once raided in December 2008, to have contravened the Immigration Act by permitting some unidentified illegal immigrants to enter the country without a work permit and to have smuggled some undisclosed goods in breach of Section 182 (1) of the Customs and Excise Act The police seized some documents and other items such as mobile phone handsets; wind up radios, files with donor information, political violence reports and DVD’s. No one was arrested but the police indicated that they were going to “study” the information. On 19 February 2013, police raided the offices of Zimbabwe Election Support Network in Belgravia (ZESN), and searched for and seized documents. On 19 September 2013 the Zimbabwe Republic Police defied the country’s new Constitution by breaking up a demonstration organised by Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) and banned a peace march organized by MDC-T youths to commemorate International Peace Day. Police officers armed with truncheons intercepted some WOZA protestors as they marched on Parliament building in Harare to present their petition calling for improved service delivery in all of the country’s local authorities and demanding an enabling operating environment for civic society organisations. At Parliament, the police arrested WOZA leaders Jenni Williams, Magodonga Mahlangu and Taurai Nyamanhindi together with freelance journalist Tawanda Karombo, who was accused of taking pictures outside Parliament building. The four were taken to Harare Central Police Station where they were detained for close to three hours. Developments relating to this case at the regional level are covered below14. On 4 December 2014, WOZA women successfully handed over a petition to parliament in Harare, which emphasized the relationships between violence and peace and development. However police in Bulawayo had disbanded their march and set dogs on the women protestors. In their statement WOZA said ‘WOZA express dismay that the police in Bulawayo seem to have not had the same training on the new ‘right to petition’ as the Harare police officers seem to have had. Once again the Bulawayo police officers have shown that there is selective harshness in responding to protests in Bulawayo. WOZA members are still shocked that Bulawayo police bosses ordered the deployment of police dogs to run the peacefully protesting members out of town’. On 19 September 2013, the ZRP banned MDC-T youths from staging a march to commemorate International Day of Peace, which is observed on 21 September 2013.MDC-T youth leader Solomon Madzore had notified the ZRP through a letter, of his party’s planned peace march scheduled for 20 September 2013, but in response to Madzore’s letter, the ZRP turned down the notification claiming that the obtaining “environment” is not conducive for such commemorations. On 12 September High Court Judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi overturned a ban imposed by the police on a procession organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) scheduled for Saturday 14 September 2013.The ZCTU had notified the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) of their planned procession and even had the courtesy to request police escort for the commemoration aimed at celebrating trade union rights to organise and the workers struggle for emancipation and recognition. The labour federation also intended to hold a clean-up campaign at Copacabana commuter omnibus terminus in Harare and thereafter stage a lunchtime march. But the ZRP which on Tuesday 20 August 2013 had granted the ZCTU authority to hold the procession later withdrew the permission on the basis that the political situation obtaining in the country was not conducive to hold the commemoration. The ZRP through Chief Superintendent Saunyama charged that some unscrupulous elements might take advantage of and hijacks the whole programme and insisted that according to the intelligence they had gathered there were some unidentified people who were waiting to hijack the march. In the urgent chamber application, ZLHR lawyers argued that the ZRP’s refusal for the ZCTU to hold its procession in commemoration of workers’ rights is beyond what is prescribed by the obnoxious Public Order and Security Act as it is a violation of the labour federation’s right to freedom of assembly and association as enshrined in the Constitution of Zimbabwe. On 27 July The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) reversed its ban of an MDC-T final election campaign rally set for Monday 29 July 2013 and imposed a stringent code of conduct and 14 Robert F Kennedy Centre, Press Release Demonstrators Assaulted during International Day of Peace Event in Zimbabwe, http://rfkcenter.org/demonstrators-assaulted-during-international-day-of-peace-event-in-zimbabwe-2?lang=en 38