Despite noble efforts to protect human rights defenders,  some African states continue to attack NGO activists, journalists, lawyers, doctors, academics and anyone else carrying out human rights activities. In Zimbabwe human rights defenders are invariably hounded before, during and after national elections. Between 2002 and 2011 Zimbabwe held three parliamentary and presidential elections  and human rights defenders working on democracy, human rights and governance issues have been harassed, arbitrarily arrested and unlawfully detained, prosecuted on trumped up charges and some have been killed.

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