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Statement Condemning Violence 2018

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Date recorded
Aug 1, 2018
Category
  • Elections
  • Riots
Summary

The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC/Commission) joins the nation and other peace loving Zimbabweans in condemning, in the strongest sense, the use of live ammunition and excessive force on unarmed protesting citizens by the army on 1 August 2018.

Date added
Dec 16, 2019
Elections & violence

Commissions Watch 17 August 2019 ZHRC Press Statement on the Planned Demonstrations

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Date recorded
Aug 17, 2019
Category
  • Politics & Governance
  • Riots
Summary

The press statement was issued by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission on 15th August 2019 ahead of the mass demonstrations planned for 16th August.

Date added
Dec 2, 2019
Promotion of truth

Commissions Watch 17 August 2019 UN High Commissisoner for Human Rights on Zimbabwe Demonstrations

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Date recorded
Aug 17, 2019
Category
  • Politics & Governance
  • Riots
Summary

Statement by Spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 16th August 2019 Demonstrations in Harare

Date added
Dec 2, 2019
Promotion of truth

Constitution Watch 4 2019 Criminal Nuisance and the Right to Protest

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Date recorded
Feb 18, 2019
Category
  • Politics & Governance
  • Riots
Summary

What is criminal nuisance and how does it affect the right to demonstrate guaranteed by section 59 of the Constitution?

Date added
Nov 25, 2019
Promotion of truth

What Happened to the Victims of the Food Riots 19–23 January 1998?

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Date recorded
Jun 30, 2006
Category
  • Riots
Summary

This report provides a summary of the previous reports, with additional information obtained from an analysis of the completed court cases.

Date added
Apr 11, 2019
Justice & accountability

‘OPEN FOR BUSINESS’, CLOSED FOR DISSENT CRACKDOWN IN ZIMBABWE DURING THE NATIONAL STAY-AWAY 14-16 JANUARY 2019

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Date recorded
Jan 16, 2019
Category
  • 2008 & Beyond
  • Politics & Governance
  • Riots
Summary

This briefing analyses events and the context, and documents key human rights concerns in months prior to, during and following the national stay-away protests which started on 14 January 2019 and ended on 16 January 2019. The findings are based on interviews with witnesses, victims, victims’ families, human rights defenders and activists, journalists, lawyers and Zimbabwean non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as well as desk-based research.

Date added
Apr 1, 2019
Extra-judicial Killings

ZPP MMR July 2016

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Date recorded
Jul 31, 2016
Category
  • 2008 & Beyond
  • Riots
Summary

Protests and protests against protests were recorded in the month of July 2016 in Beitbridge, Harare, Bulawayo and Victoria Falls. From July 1 Beitbridge residents and cross border shoppers went on massive demonstrations against the imposition of a ban on imported goods as stipulated in Statutory Instrument (SI) 64 of 2016; the protests turned violent resulting in the torching of a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority warehouse and 36 people were arrested.

Date added
Feb 19, 2019
Promotion of truth

ZPP MMR June 2016

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Date recorded
Jun 30, 2016
Category
  • 2008 & Beyond
  • Riots
Summary

In the month of June Zimbabwe witnessed an escalation in protests mostly driven by non political party actors. Some of the protesting groups included the Occupy Africa Unity Square movement which is a group of citizen activists founded by the disappeared Itai Dzamara in 2014.

Date added
Feb 19, 2019
Promotion of truth

ZPP March MMR 2017

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Date recorded
Mar 31, 2017
Category
  • 2008 & Beyond
  • Riots
Summary

These are various human rights violations in the month of March. Civic and political rights violations were recorded in both urban areas and rural areas. In urban areas the violations were mainly the denial of the right to freedom of assembly, expression and association.

Date added
Feb 19, 2019
Justice & accountability

ZPP August MMR 2018

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Date recorded
Aug 31, 2018
Category
  • Elections
  • Riots
  • Trauma
Summary

Picking up the pieces in the aftermath of the elections

Date added
Feb 19, 2019
Justice & accountability

Zimbabwe political violence & elections

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Date recorded
Apr 30, 2018
Category
  • Elections
  • Politics & Governance
  • Riots
Summary

This report focuses on how Zimbabwe has an unenviable reputation for being the most politically violent country in Southern Africa, certainly since the civil wars ended in Angola and Mozambique, and the independence of Namibia and South Africa.

Date added
Feb 18, 2019
Elections & violence

Shutdown Atrocities Report 6 February 2019

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Date recorded
Feb 6, 2019
Category
  • Politics & Governance
  • Riots
  • Trauma
Summary

The violations of human rights that started as the state’s response to mass protests on 14 January, 2019 following the increase in fuel prices immediately took a widespread systematic character, the dominant actors being the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and suspected ZANU-PF militia. The systematic and sustained nature of the violations raises fear that this is becoming a case of crimes against humanity.

Date added
Feb 14, 2019
Extra-judicial Killings

Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry 18 DEC 18

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Date recorded
Aug 1, 2018
Category
  • 2008 & Beyond
  • Elections
  • Riots
Summary

The report includes Findings and recommendations by the Commission following the 1 August 2018 events.

Date added
Feb 11, 2019
Extra-judicial Killings

Consolidated report on food riots

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Date recorded
Jan 19, 1998
Category
  • Riots
Summary

The report covers the areas identified by many political observers as being significantly related to the climate of discontent and discouragement felt by the Zimbabwean public at the time of the Food Riots. It also identifies the factors that observers felt were indicative of a crisis of governance in Zimbabwe. It talks about how Government-administered prices to meet Government's excessive spending requirements which triggered a resurgence in inflation, with analysts saying that inflation would round-off 1997 at above 20%.

Date added
Feb 11, 2019
Justice & accountability

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