Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Violence & Torture

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The Human Rights NGO Forum, of which ZLHR is a member, has now expanded its objectives to assist victims of organised violence, using the following definition:

“Organised violence” means the inter-human infliction of significant avoidable pain and suffering by an organised group according to a declared or implied strategy and/or system of ideas and attitudes. It comprises any violent action, which is unacceptable by general human standards, and relates to the victims’ mental and physical well-being.”

The Human Rights NGO Forum operates a Research and Documentation Unit, while the Legal Resources Foundation operates a Litigation Unit to prosecute such cases.

19 May 2003
STATEMENT ON REPORTS OF TORTURE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER
BY THE POLICE AND OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has read with alarm various reports in the press about the torture being perpetrated by the police, particularly in the Law and Order Section, and other Law Enforcement Agents.
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ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM
Reported Militia Bases

Information about alleged bases derives from secondary sources. However, in some instances a number of people have made identical or similar allegations about particular bases and the identity of base leaders involved.
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POLITICAL VIOLENCE REPORT
Update for the week ending 23 February 2002
As of today the Forum will be issuing an update on incidents political violence taking place throughout Zimbabwe on a daily basis. The report will be in the form of a narrative of violations by constituency.
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POLITICAL VIOLENCE DEATHS
Deaths resultant from political violence 1 January 2002 – 23 February 2002...
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POLITICAL VIOLENCE REPORT
1-16 FEBRUARY 2002
Violence on an organised basis has continued without decline throughout the country. In most cases victims are abducted to bases where they are tortured and then released. These bases are springboards for militia operating in the area and also serve as torture centres.
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POLITICAL VIOLENCE REPORT
1-18 JANUARY 2002
The Political Violence Report will now be published on a fortnightly basis up until the presidential and mayoral elections scheduled to be held on March 9 and 10.
The aim of this is to keep the public up to date with incidents of human rights violations occurring during this period.
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POLITICAL VIOLENCE REPORT
19 -31 JANUARY 2002
As the presidential campaign begins in earnest, of gravest concern are the 16 politically motivated murders that were reported in the month of January. This figure may be higher as it is possible that other deaths went unreported.
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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.