8. Emerging key trends from recorded violations 8.1 Summary statistics of recorded violations from 2012 to 2017 Violation Year of Violation 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Total Threat 4 6 7 5 1 2 25 Disownment 1 5 3 1 0 1 11 Invasion of Privacy 2 3 6 1 0 0 12 Outed 1 5 10 1 1 1 19 Police Harrassment 0 10 3 0 0 0 13 Detention 1 5 3 3 0 0 12 Discrimination 1 7 3 0 0 0 11 Blackmail 0 6 3 8 5 3 25 Displacement 0 0 4 0 0 2 6 Unfair Labour Practice 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 Hate Speech 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Assault 1 12 11 2 3 3 32 Total 170 Table 1: Distribution of violations by year of occurence Shown above is a summary of the total recorded violations against LGBTI persons over a period covering five years. In total, 170 violations were recorded and categorized as given in the table above. The violations recorded were drawn from a total of 108 cases that were reported in the GALZ’s violations reports of the years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017. The differences in the number of cases versus the number of violations, resulted from the fact that often one violation was associated with other violations against the same individuals. The trend developing across the reviewed reports shows that the most common categories of violations are assault (19%), threats (15%), blackmail (15%) and being outed (11%). Zimbabwe being a generally homophobic country - the trend building from the analysis of the reports indeed points to the picture obtaining on the ground as corroborated by other researches. An analysis of the state of human rights violations against LGBTI persons in Zimbabwe (2011-2017) 15