August 2009 1-56432-532-6 False Dawn The Zimbabwe Power-Sharing Government’s Failure to Deliver Human Rights Improvements I. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 II. Update ........................................................................................................................... 3 III. Continuing Human Rights Violations ............................................................................. 5 Political Violence against MDC Activists and Perceived ZANU-PF Critics ...........................5 Politically Motivated Prosecution of MDC Legislators and Activists ..................................7 Harassment of the Media ............................................................................................... 9 Persecution of Lawyers and Judicial Officers .................................................................. 10 Targeting of Commercial Farmers ................................................................................... 11 Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in the Marange Diamond Fields .................................... 12 IV. Failure to Undertake Legislative Reforms ..................................................................... 13 V. Delay in Implementing Institutional Reforms .................................................................15 VI. Lack of Accountability for Human Rights Violations ...................................................... 17 VII. Recommendations ...................................................................................................... 19 To the Transitional, Power-Sharing Government of Zimbabwe ........................................ 19 To the Member States of the Southern African Development Community ...................... 20 To the European Union and the United States ............................................................... 20