reports from the previous UPR cycle, including recommendations made to the government of Zimbabwe, were reviewed in the penultimate part of this report. Interviews with artists and artist bodies were carried out. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a fairly open framework to allow for focused, conversational, two-way communication. Not all questions were designed, phrased and shared ahead of time to allow both the interviewer and the person being interviewed the flexibility to probe for details or discuss issues. For the complete list of guiding questions see Annex 1. Purposive sampling of interviewees was implemented and a total of 16 artists were interviewed. Purposive sampling is a form of non-probability sampling in which decisions concerning the individuals to be included in the sample are taken by the researcher, based upon a variety of criteria which may include specialist knowledge of the research issue, or capacity and willingness to participate in the research. The researcher took a decision about the individual participants who would be most likely to contribute appropriate data, both in terms of relevance and depth. For the full list of interviewed people see Annex 2. 7 | Page