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Zimbabwe: Diamond Researcher Denied Bail

10th June 2010
A Harare magistrate on Thursday denied bail to Farai Maguwu and remanded him in custody. Maguwu is the diamond researcher who was arrested last Thursday, shortly after giving evidence to the Kimberley Process monitor to Zimbabwe, Abbey Chikane, about the volatile situation in the Chiadzwa diamond fields.
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Zimbabwe: US condemns arrests of civic leaders, rising violence in Zimbabwe

9th June 2010
The United States on Wednesday condemned a recent wave of arrests of leaders of Zimbabwe’s embattled civil society, as well as signs of burgeoning violence around the country.
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Zimbabwe: Report on Zimbabwe Diamond Trade Angers Rights Groups

8th June 2010
JOHANNESBURG — A monitor for the United Nations-backed body charged with halting the illegal trade in diamonds that finance conflict has recommended that Zimbabwe be allowed to export the stones, prompting condemnations from human rights groups that say the country’s military is still deeply involved in smuggling and violence against local miners.
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Zimbabwe: Landmark Ruling For Zimbabwe Women

3rd June 2010
Harare — THE Registrar-General has no right to bar married women from obtaining travel documents for their children, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
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Zimbabwe: Diamond Researcher Is Arrested

3rd June 2010
Farai Maguwu, who leads the Center for Research and Development in Mutare, the leading civic group investigating human rights abuses in the Marange diamond fields, turned himself in to the police on Thursday and was charged with providing false information to Abbey Chikane, the Kimberley Process monitor appointed to ensure that the diamonds mined there are not being sold illicitly to fuel conflict. Mr. Maguwu met with Mr. Chikane on May 25. Since then, Mr. Maguwu’s brother has been picked up for questioning, and his cousin has been arrested and charged with obstructing justice.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe frees gay rights activists

28th May 2010
A Zimbabwe court on Thursday freed two employees of a gay organisation after six days in jail on allegations of possessing indecent material and displaying a placard seen as insulting to President Robert Mugabe, an outspoken critic of homosexuality. The Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) organisation said on Thursday that the two employees were assaulted by police while in custody.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe allows four new private newspapers

27th May 2010
Zimbabwe's newly created media commission said Wednesday licenses have been granted to allow four new private daily newspapers to start operating, in the first concrete move to relax tough media rules. "The Zimbabwe Media Commission is committed to the establishment of a free media that is a market place where citizens have easy access to a wide range of quality information," said the commission's chairman Godfrey Majonga.
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Zimbabwe: Zim police arrest two gay rights activists

25th May 2010
Zimbabwe police have arrested two members of a gay organisation after they posted a letter in their office from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Lewis Brown criticising the Zimbabwean president's opposition to homosexuality, their lawyer said on Monday. Ellen Chadehama, 34, and Ingatius Mhambi, 38, are employees of the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) organisation. They were arrested on allegations under Zimbabwe's censorship laws on Friday.
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Zimbabwe: M&G in court for report on Zim elections

25th May 2010
Lawyers for the Mail & Guardian on Monday described the government's contention that two eminent SA judges were sent to Zimbabwe in 2002 as special envoys on a confidential diplomatic mission as "nonsense on stilts".
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe police raid gay group offices, arrest 2

24th May 2010
HARARE, Zimbabwe — A defense attorney says police in Zimbabwe have arrested two members of a local gay organization. Attorney David Hofisi says he has not been allowed to visit them in jail since their arrest Friday but they were expected to be brought to court later Monday.
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe court acquits Mugabe opponent Roy Bennett

10th May 2010
Roy Bennett leaving court after being acquitted of terrorism charges in in a case that has strained Zimbabwe's struggling coalition government since it was forged more than a year ago. Photograph: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP
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Zimbabwe: MISA-Zimbabwe statement on World Press Freedom Day 2010

3rd May 2010
On 3 May 2010 Zimbabweans join the rest of the world in commemorating World Press Freedom Day set by the United Nations to raise awareness on the importance of media freedom and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression enshrined under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai seeks access to information law repeal

16th April 2010
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Reform Agenda Faces Zanu PF Resistance Kholwani Nyathi27 March 2010A....
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe artist defies Robert Mugabe

4th April 2010
Artist Owen Maseko is charged in Zimbabwe with 'undermining the authority of' President Robert Mugabe. One of Zimbabwe's most prominent artists has defied Robert Mugabe's regime in a hard-hitting interview with the Observer as he awaits trial for "undermining the authority of the president".
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SALC in the News: Zuma Continues to Sit on Army General's Report on Violence

25th March 2010
In 2008 former South African President Thabo Mbeki commissioned a fact finding mission into state sponsored violence that took place in the run up to Zimbabwe's one man presidential run-off. Mbeki, as mediator, sent six retired South African army generals on two fact-finding missions to investigate the cause of the political crisis, especially the role of the army in the violence. Nearly two years since those generals reported back to Mbeki, their damning report has still not been made public.
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Zimbabwe: Zim cops seize pictures of repression

24th March 2010
Harare - Zimbabwe police on Tuesday seized all the photographs from an exhibition depicting repression under President Robert Mugabe, and arrested the chief of the human rights body that organized the show, officials confirmed.
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NPA's refusal to investigate alleged torture by Zimbabwean Police Officals

18th March 2010
SALC is urging the High Court of Gauteng to review, declare unlawful and invalid, and set aside the ....
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Zuma Continues to Sit on Army General's Report on Violence

18th March 2010
SALC is supporting a case requesting judicial review of a decision by the Office of the Presidency t....
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Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, courthouse filming lands journalist in jail

1st March 2010
New York, March 1, 2010—A Zimbabwean freelance journalist was arrested today for the third time this year—this time for taking footage of prisoners outside a courthouse in the capital, Harare, according to local journalists.
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Zimbabwe: African NGOs adopt resolutions on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe

12th November 2009
The Forum for the participation of NGO’s at the 46th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) on 9 November 2009 agreed to adopt a resolution on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe as a whole.
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Zimbabwe: Child rape epidemic in Zimbabwe

9th November 2009
Tens of thousands of children have been sexually abused in Zimbabwe in a growing epidemic that has shocked human rights activists. A single clinic in the capital, Harare, says it has treated nearly 30,000 girls and boys who were abused in the past four years ‑ an average of 20 per day. Experts believe that the country's economic collapse under Robert Mugabe has led to widespread family breakdown and left many children vulnerable.
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"Zimbabwe could slide into a Civil War" - Leading think-tank warns SADC

7th November 2009
JOHANNESBURG - A leading Regional think-tank has warned SADC leaders of the impact of their failure to find lasting solution to the Zimbabwean crisis at the Maputo Summit on Thursday. In a statement released to the media Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), warned the Southern African Development Community (SADC) that if it does not act urgently to halt increasing militarisation in Zimbabwe and secure effective implementation of the GPA, there is a serious risk that Zimbabwe will slide back to the crisis levels of 2008, devolve into further widespread violence and that real gains – in health and education – will be lost.
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Zimbabwe: Zim committed to unity: SADC

5th November 2009
Maputo - Zimbabwe's rival leaders remain committed to the nation's power-sharing deal, despite a deadlock that has paralysed the unity government, a regional official said on Wednesday ahead of a summit on the crisis.
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ZIMBABWE: A WAY FORWARD

4th November 2009
ZIMBABWE: A WAY FORWARD
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Zimbabwe: Press Release (OSISA)

4th November 2009
NEWS RELEASE FROM THE OPEN SOCIETY INITIATIVE FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (OSISA) Johannesburg, 04 November 2009: If the Southern African Development Community (SADC) does not act urgently to halt increasing militarisation in Zimbabwe and secure effective implementation of the Global Political Agreement, there is a serious risk that Zimbabwe will slide back to the crisis levels of 2008, devolve into further widespread violence and that real gains – in health and education – will be lost.
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Zimbabwe: Human rights and media lawyer arrested

2nd November 2009
Mordecai Mahlangu, a prominent human rights and media lawyer was on 02 November 2009 arrested for allegedly writing a letter to Attorney General (AG) Johannes Tomana.
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Zimbabwe: 236 arrested, 12 soldiers tortured to death in CIO search for weapons

31st October 2009
HARARE -- At least 12 soldiers died last week after they were brutally tortured by military intelligence agents following the disappearance of an assortment of guns and bombs from Pomona barracks, we can reveal. (Pictured: UN torture expert Manfred Nowak – Was deported from Zimbabwe last week)
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Zimbabwe: UN rights expert deported from Zim

29th October 2009
Harare - United Nations human rights expert Manfred Nowak was deported from Zimbabwe on Thursday after being detained by security officials on arrival overnight, a U.N. official said. "We are boarding the plane to Johannesburg now," the official said by cellphone from Harare airport.
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Zimbabwe: UNHRC must act on Zim - Nowak

29th October 2009
Johannesburg - The United Nations torture expert Manfred Nowak said on Thursday he would recommend that the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) take action against Zimbabwe after his expulsion from the country.
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Zimbabwe: Zim withdraws invite to UN Rapporteur on Torture

28th October 2009
Zimbabwe has withdrawn an invitation to a United Nations (UN) expert on torture citing a busy schedule because of a visit to the country by the regional bloc’s ministerial to try and unlock a political deadlock between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai.
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