PRESS RELEASE
13 January 2021
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“Authorities must use bail hearing to release journalist Hopewell Chin’ono”
17 November 2020
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Africa: Positive death penalty decision undermined by continued executions
In the year since the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights gave fresh impetus to the global campaign for the abolition of the death penalty by declaring the mandatory death penalty “unfair” and a “failure in due process”, at least four countries – Botswana, Egypt, Somalia and South Sudan – have carried out executions, Amnesty International said today.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CALLS ON ZIMBABWE TO CRIMINALISE ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES AND PUNISH PERPETRATORS.
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JOINT STATEMENT CONCERNING THE JUDGMENT AGAINST LAWYER BEATRICE MTETWA
24 August 2020
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Zimbabwe: Authorities thwart anti-corruption protests, launch a witch-hunt against activists
Zimbabwean authorities have thwarted a peaceful anti-corruption protest which was planned for today and launched a witch-hunt against political and human rights activists suspected of being behind the planned demonstration, Amnesty International said today.
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Murder and mutilation of people with albinism continues despite SADC motion – Amnesty International
By Tafadzwa Munjoma
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Amnesty International condemns threats by the state to use excessive force to suppress dissent
Amnesty International is concerned with threats by Zimbabwe’sDeputy Minister of Defence, Victor Matemadanda, “to unleashsecurity forces on the protestors” in response to an allegedplanned mass protest in the country. Other senior governmentofficials have made similar threats of the use of force shouldZimbabweans go into the streets to protest.
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Zimbabwe: Authorities continue their crackdown on dissent with arrest of investigative journalist and activist
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
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Zimbabwe: Authorities must drop charges against health care workers for demanding better wages
7 july 2020
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Amnesty International Calls on Zimbabwe to stop the practice and prevalence of torture in Zimbabwe
Amnesty International Public Statement on 26 June
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International Day of the African Child
On 16 June 1976 In Soweto, South Africa, thousands of schoolchildren took to the streets to protest about the inferior quality of their education and to demand their right to be taught in their own language. Hundreds of them were shot down; and in the two weeks of protest that followed, more than a hundred people were killed and more than a thousand injured.