CSOs speak against crackdown

HUMAN rights watchdogs have flagged government’s current crackdown against dissenting voices ahead of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) summit scheduled for this month saying the arbitrary arrest of human rights activists should stop forthwith.

Government has since gone a gear up in crushing alleged dissent amid fears of planned protests during the summit.

Last week, four local pro-democracy activists were  pulled off a Victoria Falls-bound plane at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport and allegedly tortured following their abduction.

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