‘Police lead in rights violations’

AT least 213 human rights violations were reported and documented across Zimbabwe, with key violations being harassment, intimidation and unlawful detention of citizens, human rights defenders and political activists, latest data has shown.

The data shows that leading the rights violations are police officers, having participated in nearly 40% of the infractions.

Coming second after the law enforcement agents is the ruling Zanu PF party, at about 26% of the breaches.

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