“Policing the State” highlights the growth of police brutality in Zimbabwe since 2000, which has coincided with the rise of the democratic challenge to the State. During the 1990s, peaceful protest by the student movement and trades unions was tolerated to some degree, but after the forming of the Movement for Democratic Change and the […]
Thu, December 14 2006 » Human rights, Impunity of the State, Justice system, Reports » No Comments
The last four years have seen a relentless clampdown on all those who are perceived as opposing the ruling party, ZANU-PF. State repression has relied on key new pieces of legislation that give the state almost unlimited powers against its own people. It is two years since the most draconian act in Zimbabwe’s 24-year history […]
Thu, July 15 2004 » Human rights, Impunity of the State, Justice system, Reports » No Comments
