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Zimbabwe lawyers for Human Rights submissions on the interpretation of citizenship laws to the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Home Affairs. More>>: posted in 07 March 2007

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Evictions and Demolitions 09 June 2005: ZLHR petitions the African Commission. See letter to the African Commission Special Rapportuer on Torture and Other forms of Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment
crimes.

Evictions and Demolitions 09 June 2005: ZLHR petitions the African Commission. See letter to the African Commission . Special Rapportuer on Refugees, Asylum Seekers
and Internally Displaced Persons

Zim Election 2005: Between January and March 18 2005, official reports from the Zimbabwean police have confirmed that 224 people have been arrested in 71 cases of political crimes.

Zim Election 2005: Concerns have been raised in the way the polling stations have been allocated and distributed between the rural constituencies and the urban constituencies

Between January 2003 and September 2003 ZLHR recorded a total of 367 human rights defenders as having been arrested and 161 of them charged under POSA in Zimbabwe

Between January 2003 and September 2003 a total of 30 journalists have been arrested and charged under AIPPA.

Between January 2003 and October 2003 ZLHR has recorded a total number of 383 arrests of hrds under the MOA, more than 200 of them in September and October 2003 alone.

On 16 May 2003 journalist Andrew Meldrum was deported from Zimbabwe despite the fact there was an explicit court order directing the State not to deport him.