8.3 Threats to LGBTI Persons Displacement 4% TOTAL DISTRIBUTION OF VIOLATIONS Blackmail 13% Threat Unfair Labour Practice 2% Hate Speech 1% Intersex 0% Assault 18% Discrimination 7% Threat 15% Detention 7% Police Harrassment 8% Bi-Sexual 0% Transgender 24% Disownment 7% Outed 11% Lesbian 20% 2016 2015 Threat 2014 Gay 56% Invasion of Privacy 7% Threat 2017 2013 2012 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Threats to LGBTI persons came in many forms. Threat in the context of the analysis refers to situations where some form of punitive action is promised for non-compliance to a request. The range of threats against LGBTI persons spans almost across all the other violations. Individuals and groups of LGBTI persons have been threatened with being outed, arrest, detention, disownment, displacement as well as assault. There is a discernable link between the other forms of violations and the threats that were identified from the recorded cases. Specifically, blackmail as a violation hinged on threats of one form or another. Individuals would either be threatened with outing, assault, arrest etc, if they did not comply with the perpetrator’s request, usually for money. Year on year figures of recorded cases of threats show a steady rise between 2012 and 2014 and slump in the succeeding two years, 2015 to 201717. Gay men fell victim the most to threats, though however this is also proportionate to their larger numbers of recorded cases relative to other gender identities. On the other hand, transgender men and women - though with fewer recorded cases in the period under review - were victim to the second highest number on threats. Threats recorded over the period have emanated mainly from close family members and law enforcement authorities, serving mainly to sustain blackmail or extortion or trying to force a conversion to a hetero normative identity. The most striking kinds of threats were found in cases of LGBTI person threatening another mainly with outing. These cases were generally associated with a motive for blackmail or extortion. An analysis of the state of human rights violations against LGBTI persons in Zimbabwe (2011-2017) 20